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Definition of Collisions
1. collision [n] - See also: collision
Lexicographical Neighbors of Collisions
Literary usage of Collisions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"collisions arc repeated on a smaller scale by the accretion of scattered material
around denser nuclei. The further development partly overlaps with the ..."
2. The North American Review by Making of America Project, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1883)
"Is there not, then, danger of collisions ? Have such collisions ever occurred;
and, if so, with what consequences 1 Now, in the first place, it is only in a ..."
3. Report of the ... Annual Conference by Association for the Reform and Codification of the Law of Nations Conference (1875)
"Report of Committee on collisions at Sea. The report in print of the Committee
on collisions at Sea was laid on the table, and, on the motion of Judge PEA- ..."
4. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William Buck Dana (1859)
"collisions AT SEA. This is a subject well worthy the attention of the ...
were stranded ; 78 abandoned ; 85 lost by fire, and 132 were losses by collisions. ..."
5. The Kinetic Theory of Gases: Elementary Treatise with Mathematical Appendices by Oskar Emil Meyer (1899)
"Since a particle whose speed is w collides on the average B times in unit time,
the time that passes between successive collisions of this particle is on ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Torts by Charles Greenstreet Addison, Horace Gay Wood (1876)
"i) 555- collisions in public thoroughfares. ... collisions between -vessels—Compulsory
pilotage.—If a shipowner unnecessarily delays mooring his vessel ..."