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An instance of colliding.

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An error caused by two source code elements (such as variables or functions) having the same name as each other.

The Russian army and people avoided a collision till Smolensk was reached, and again from Smolensk to Borodino.

The first serious collision between the natives and the government occurred in 1873.

The fighter pilots had to take evasive action to avoid a collision.

At Borodino a collision took place.

Gas has the disadvantage that in case of a collision its inflammability may assist ally fire that may be started.

I 1519 a third expedition, under Hernando Cortes, the conque or of Mexico, came into collision with the natives of the isla d of Cozumel.

They came early into collision with Egypt, and at the height of their power under Hattusil II.

They saw that the less contact the less danger of collision.

So sudden was the collision that the Prussian advanced guard battery had to fire case to clear its own front.

This effected, the Abyssinians almost came into contact with the Egyptian troops sent up the Blue Nile (after the occupation of Khartum) to Famaka and towards Gallabat; but as both sides were anxious to avoid a collision over this latter town, no hostile results ensued.

Rothad, bishop of Soissons, one of the most active members of the party in favour of the pseudoIsidorian theories, immediately came into collision with his archbishop. Deposed in 863 at the council of Soissons, presided over by Hincmar, Rothad appealed to Rome.

In 1780, however, the Dutch, to avoid collision with the warlike Kaffir tribes advancing south and west from east central Africa, agreed with them to make the Great Fish river the common boundary.

The first collision of the English with the Mahratta power was in 1774 and resulted in 1782 in the treaty of Salbai, by which Salsette was ceded to the British, while Broach was handed over to Sindhia.

Two parties were contending in the state, and their obstinacy could not fail to produce a most direful collision.

He was credited with having shown moderation at Milan, but it is certain that he came into sharp collision with the archbishop, Saint Charles Borromeo, who took up the cause of his flock.

During thc first few years of his reign Henry had already been in collision with the ecclesiastical authorities over several such cases; he had chafed at seeing two clerks accused of murder and blackmailing claimed by and acouitted in the church courts; and most of all at the frequency of unlicensed appeals to Romea flagrant breach of one of the three rules laid down by William the Conqueror.

He summoned two parliaments, of only one House, and with the consent of the second parliament he erected a second House, so that he might have some means of checking the Lower House without constantly coming into personal collision with its authority.

Nor did even the renewal of parliamentary impeachment, which ended in the banishment of Lord Chancellor Clarendon (1667), bring on any direct collision with the king.

If it is not so, the government is inclined to proscribe unpopular opinion, and to forget that new opinions by which the greatest benefits arc likely to be conferred are certain at first to be entertained by a very few, and are quite certain to be unpopular as soon as they come into collision with the opinions of the majority.

He refused to allow his kingdom to remain in dependence on the Irish Dalriada, but coming into collision with his southern neighbours he led a large force against .Æ thelfrith, king of the Northumbrians, and was defeated at a place called Daegsanstane, probably in Liddesdale.

And the sense data are, he finds, partly (a) revelations of external things themselves in their mathematical relations, and partly (b) sensations, boundless in variety, which are somehow awakened in us through contact and collision with things relatively to their mathematical relations.

His attempts to carry out these views brought him into collision both with the authorities and with the populace, - the latter being not unnaturally restive under the restraints imposed upon their liberty by the vigorous system of church discipline, and the former being inclined to retain in their own hands a portion of that power in things spiritual which Calvin was bent on placing exclusively in the hands of the church rulers.

When the Romans first came into collision with Carthage in the 3rd century B.C., the name was applied to the whole country from the river Mulucha (now the Muluya), about too m.

It is likely that Strongbow had no conception of this, and that his first collision with the tribal system was an unpleasant surprise.

While founding her colonial empire England had come into collision with France; and the rivalry of the Hundred Years War had immediately sprung up again between the two countries.

The rise of the power of the Franks and the advance of their dominion northwards brought on a collision with the Frisians, who in the 7th century were still in possession of the whole of the seacoast, and apparently ruled over the greater part of modern Flanders.

The commercial activity of Barcelona brought it into collision with Genoa and alliance with Venice.

At the same time his inheritance of the Netherlands brought him into collision with their inhabitants who feared his absolutist tendencies, and with the Reformation The revolt in the Low Countries was inevitably favored by both France and England.

This bellicose policy, however, brought him into collision with the queen, who feared that the outbreak of war would diminish the revenues which she squandered in selfindulgence.

His observations of the celestial bodies led him to form new theories of the universal order, and brought him into collision with the popular faith.

As early as 17 5 B.C. they came into collision with the Romans by assisting Perseus, king of Macedonia; and after Macedonia became a Roman province they were for many years engaged in hostilities with them.

One of his earliest papers dealt with the age of the earth, and brought him into collision with the geologists of the Uniformitarian school, who were claiming thousands of millions of years for the formation of the stratified portions of the earth's crust.

The first collision took place at Risdon, a few days after the landing of Lieutenant Bowen's expedition, and for this the white settlers were entirely responsible.

When the Gauls made their way into eastern Europe, they came into collision with the Getae, whom they defeated and sold in large numbers to the Athenians as slaves.

In 1792 Kant, in the full height of his reputation, was involved in a collision with the Government on the question of his religious doctrines.

This unit is used in airborne laser altimetry, distance measurement and collision avoidance.

They could be used to deflect an asteroid on a collision course with Earth.

Molds & die have its own problems for collision avoidance & using shorter tool length.

Along its path, an individual projectile may create fast recoil atoms which in turn may initiate collision cascades of moving target atoms.

I could say that it crashed in a fiery inferno of head-on collision, but it wouldn't be true.

The kinetic transport coeffs. are computed from explicit collision integrals and compared favorably with detailed simulations.

The police input will involve a number of police motorcyclists and a collision investigator who is also a keen motorcyclist.

The first is to determine values of physically meaningful parameters such as potential energy barriers and the average energy transferred in a collision.

Theories of halo nucleus scattering often use an approximation in which the halo is appeared frozen during the collision.

The collision sound effect is excellent, but I found it difficult to make the saber detect a collision every time.

The motability scooter was in collision with a Black Suzuki Alto driven by a 73 year old woman from Stoney Stanton, Leics.

The ad shows a collision between a motorcyclist and a car, from both perspectives, with ultimately tragic results.

During the stormy session of 1770 he came into violent collision with Chatham and Camden in the questions that arose out of the Middlesex election and the trials for political libel; and in the subsequent years he was made the subject of the bitter attacks of Junius, in which his early Jacobite connexions, and his.

In the case of collision the boat under way was responsible for damages to the boat at anchor.

His independence (which his detractors attributed in some degree to his alleged susceptibility to Tory compliments) brought him into collision both with the Liberal caucus and with the party organization in Newcastle itself, but Cowen's personal popularity and his remarkable powers as an orator triumphed in his own birthplace, and he was again elected in 1885 in spite of Liberal opposition.