Definition of Collisional

1. Adjective. (physics) Of or pertaining to collisions (especially between particles) ¹

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Definition of Collisional

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Collisional

colliquefactions
collision
collision-theory
collision bulkhead
collision bulkheads
collision course
collision cross-section
collision detection
collision detections
collision frequency
collision mat
collision mats
collision theory
collision time
collision tumour
collisional (current term)
collisionality
collisionally
collisionless
collisionless plasma model
collisionlessly
collisions
collisive
collitigant
collitigants
collocabilities
collocability
collocable
collocal
collocate

Literary usage of Collisional

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Fluidity and Plasticity: By Eugene C. Bingham by Eugene Cook Bingham (1922)
"If the particles were mere points, there would be no collisions and therefore no collisional resistance to flow. On the other hand, if the molecules ..."

2. Wavenumber Calibration Tables from Heterodynes Frequency Measurements by Arthur G. Maki, Joseph S. Wells (1997)
"collisional narrowing has the effect of reducing the size of the Gaussian ... Since collisional narrowing is primarily a kinetic collisional effect ..."

3. Journal of the American Chemical Society by American Chemical Society (1914)
"(9) In rarefied gases, the collisional resistance rjc is equal to zero and in ... But this discrepancy may conceivably be due to the collisional viscous ..."

4. The Origin of the Earth by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin (1916)
"In the first chapter, the way in which the common collisional atmosphere passes into an ultra-atmosphere of vaulting molecules, and the way in which a part ..."

5. Bose-Einstein Condensation: An Introduction edited by Keith Burnett, Mark Edwards, Charles W. Clark (1996)
"101, (1996)] Estimating Bounds on collisional Relaxation Rates of Spin-Polarized 87Rb Atoms at Ultracold Temperatures Volume 101 Number 4 Frederick H. Mies, ..."

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