different between collide vs collider

English

Etymology

From Latin collidere (“to strike or clash together”), from com- (“together”) + laedere (“to strike, dash against, hurt”); see lesion.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /k??la?d/

Verb

collide (third-person singular simple present collides, present participle colliding, simple past and past participle collided)

1. (intransitive) To impact directly, especially if violent.

   When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.

   • 1865, John Tyndall, The Constitution of the Universe (1869), page 14

     Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate.

   • No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding.
2. (intransitive) To come into conflict, or be incompatible.

   China collided with the modern world.

Synonyms

• clash

Related terms

• collision

Translations

Further reading

• collide in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• collide in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Cedillo, codille, collied

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ide

Verb

collide

1. third-person singular present indicative of collidere

Anagrams

• decolli

Latin

Verb

coll?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of coll?d?

English

Etymology

collide +? -er

Noun

collider (plural colliders)

1. (physics) Any of several forms of particle accelerator in which two opposing beams of particles collide.
2. (video games) A model of the shape of an object for purposes of collision detection.
   • 2014, Jeff W. Murray, C# Game Programming Cookbook for Unity 3D (page 339)

     The race controller will check for a trigger hit between this player's collider and the start/finish line trigger, but this script has an OnTriggerEnter function to check for triggers used to force a respawn.

Derived terms

supercollider

Translations