collisional
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- adjective
- /kəˈlɪʒənl/
- Specialized
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colisional
- The collisional activity in the early solar system shaped the planets we see today.
- collisional families
- collisional accumulation
- collisional evolution
It's not collisional, it's collision less.
- It's not collisional, it's collision less.
- They are telling you something about what the molecule thinks it can do and does, whereas the collisional stuff is pretty statistical.
Examples
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Condensation continues until the particles are sufficiently large (20 microns) to begin collisional interaction, which leads to even larger cloud droplets.
Academic text (1994) -
What what, what collisional process gives rise to the largest change of momentum?
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Minutes to hours later, the collisional energy emerges as thermal radiation.
Academic text (2003) -
Gravity, to be sure, does play a secondary role in collisional sculpting.
Academic text (1996) -
It is the increase in atmospheric density at the surface caused by the gravitational compression that generates more collisional activity.
Blog text (18) -
Collisional forces are responsible for the dramatic effects observed in asteroid belt collisions.
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Scientists study collisional impacts to understand how celestial bodies interact in space.
Synonyms
Causing a strong physical hit or collision
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Collisional comes from the verb collide, which comes from the old parts com- 'together' and a root meaning 'to strike', so imagine two objects 'hitting together'. That's why collisional describes processes caused by things hitting or bumping into each other.