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collider en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /kəˈlaɪdɚ/ (General-American)
  • (US) audio

Etymology

Etymology tree English collide Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English collider From collide + -er.

Meanings

  1. Any of several forms of particle accelerator in which two opposing beams of particles collide.
  2. A node in a causal graph that has at least two incoming edges.
  3. A model of the shape of an object for purposes of collision detection.
    • 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. 2014, Jeff W. Murray, C# Game Programming Cookbook for Unity 3D, page 339:

Forms

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Deriveds

supercollider

Translations (12)

ja コライダー (particle accelerator) · ru колла́йдер (particle accelerator) · fr collisionneur (particle accelerator) · mk судирач (particle accelerator) · pt colisionador (particle accelerator) · es colisionador (particle accelerator) · pl zderzacz (particle accelerator) · eu talkagailu (particle accelerator) · cmn 對撞機 /对撞机 (particle accelerator) · pt colisor (particle accelerator) · fi törmäytin (particle accelerator) · ca col·lisonador (particle accelerator)