See Also: collision(dictionary)
collision(dictionary)
Collision(medicine)
coulomb collision(medicine)
collision tumour(medicine)
collision time(medicine)
collision theory(medicine)
collision frequency(medicine)
collision cross-section(medicine)
effective collision radius(medicine)

Third Reich (sh) and collision (iou)


Third Reich (sh)




Official designation for the Nazi Party's regime in Germany from January 1933 to May 1945.

The name reflects Adolf Hitler's conception of his expansionist regime
which he predicted would last 1,000 years
as the presumed successor of the Holy Roman Empire (800-1806, the First Reich) and the German empire under the Hohenzollern dynasty (1871-1918, the Second Reich).


collision (iou)



collision noun. LME.
[Late Latin collisio(n-), from collis- pa. ppl stem of collidere COLLIDE verb: see -ION.]
The action of striking against something with force; the action or an act of colliding; (a) violent encounter of a moving body, esp. a ship or vehicle, with another or with a fixed object. LME.
E. Rutherford The number of collisions of the particle with the atom. J. Wain His head came into painful collision with a wooden crate. M. Shadbolt His brakes squealed, to avoid a collision with a truck.
b. Computing. An instance of two or more records being assigned the same location in memory. Also, an instance of different sources or nodes attempting to send a signal simultaneously along a shared line. M20.
a. Synaeresis of two vowels. M16-L17.
b. Dissonant conjunction of speech sounds. M17.
fig. The encounter of opposed ideas, interests, factions, etc.; a clash, a conflict. M17.
b. The action of coming into contact (with no notion of violence or hostility); coincidence, conjunction. Now rare or obsolete. M17.
S. Johnson By the fortuitous collision of happy incidents.
Comb.: collision bulkhead a strong watertight bulkhead built in the bows of a ship to prevent flooding after a collision; collision course a course or action bound to end in a collision (lit. & fig.); collision-mat Nautical a mat with oakum on one face for putting over a hole made by a collision; collision quarters, collision stations pre-assigned positions to be taken up by the crew and passengers of a ship etc. in the event of a collision.
collisional adjective pertaining to or resulting from collision, esp. of microscopic particles L19.
collisionally adverb M20.
collisionless adjective M20.