verb
definition
To impact directly, especially if violent.
example
When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.
definition
To come into conflict, or be incompatible.
example
China collided with the modern world.
noun
definition
A collision.
Examples of colliding in a Sentence
The chances of individual stars of the two systems colliding are infinitesimal.
Deidre gazed after him, fear and hope colliding within her.
There is no reason to doubt that in the case of the fountain also, coalescence is due to differences of potential between colliding drops.
His face was in her thoughts, and the idea of never seeing him again crushed her as surely as colliding with the planet would.
Parked vehicles also have to be taken into account as nothing riles people more than a 26 ton freighter colliding with their car!
Nine times out of ten tho, a noisy pump is caused by an obstruction colliding with the rotating impeller.
Then, grunting with effort, they lunge furiously, colliding with resounding thwacks, red-faced and panting.
M51 is a face on spiral galaxy with a companion on its north edge that appears to be colliding with M51.
She felt his fear and squeezed her eyes closed, the man in her arms colliding with the man hiding in the corner of her mind.
Thus the contribution to the total impulsive pressure exerted on the area dS in time dt from this cause is mu X udtdS X (11 3 m 3 /,r 3)e hm (u2+v2+w2 )dudvdw (I o) The total pressure exerted in bringing the centres of gravity of all the colliding molecules to rest normally to the boundary is obtained by first integrating this expression with respect to u, v, w, the limits being all values for which collisions are possible (namely from - co too for u, and from - oo to + oo for v and w), and then summing for all kinds of molecules in the gas.
The actual behaviour of the colliding drops becomes apparent under instantaneous illumination, e.g.
In the absence of dust and greasy contamination, the obliquely colliding jets may rebound from one another without coalescence for a considerable time.
This view is confirmed by experiments in which other gases are substituted for air as the environment of colliding jets.
Ski brakes drag in the snow when the boot releases from the binding, preventing the ski from rocketing down the mountain and colliding with skiers.