supercollision

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ collision.

Noun

supercollision (plural supercollisions)

  1. A very powerful or large-scale collision.
    • 1994, Alexei V. Byalko, Nuclear Waste Disposal: Geophysical Safety, volume 1, page 165:
      Is it possible that the majority of asteroids were born is [sic] this very supercollision that created the moon?
  2. (physics) The kind of high-energy collision that occurs in a supercollider.
  3. (physics) The simultaneous collision of three or more particles.
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