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supercollision en · NOUN

Etymology

From super- + collision.

Meanings

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

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