0 past simple and past participle of collide --
1 (especially of moving objects) to hit something violently: --
It was predicted that a comet would collide with one of the planets.
The two vans collided at the crossroads.
The ontology component returns estimates of the integrity of the vehicle, the payload and the object collided with.
During the formation of our solar system this debris collided with high frequency with the early planets and deposited carbon molecules on the early earth.
Here books and ideas, convictions and learning, reading and writing, institutions and authors collided.
Often the discursive repertoire of self-assertion collided with that of self-development, resulting once again in a capacity for self-blame.
These energies from below, rather predictably, soon collided with reforms in public administration at the metropolitan, provincial, and local levels.
Here the inevitable temporal constraints of a conference paper collided with an important topic and left one wishing for more time.
During a severe snow squall she collided with the overhanging northern ice cliff.
The postmodern view of radical instability has collided with processual aversions towards 'meaning', resulting in a stalemate regarding the past.
