What is "collides"

Usage examples of "collides".

The force-carrying particle then collides with another matter particle and is absorbed.

Equally, if a real photon collides with an atom, it may move an electron from an orbit nearer the nucleus to one farther away.

The effect of the energy loss will be to change the orbit of the earth so that gradually it gets nearer and nearer to the sun, eventually collides with it, and settles down to a stationary state.

When a particle collides with its antiparticle, they annihilate, leaving only energy.

It typically happens over areas where a leg of the jet stream collides with subtropical air—the Great Lakes, the Gulf Stream off Hatteras, the southern Appalachians.

Hurricane Grace is still working her way north, and when she collides with the Sable Island storm—probably in a day or so—conditions will get even more severe, maybe as high as Force 12.

At eight AM on the 29th, Grace collides with the cold front, as predicted, and goes reeling back out to sea.

Firebolts from lances flare, and golden-red chaos collides with streaking blackness.

I reach reflexively for the golden ball, and Liu Wen sends the black careening to cut it off but I end up interfering with the black and it collides with the red and both skid off on tangents towards empty parts of the table.

Like deafening thunder rolling through the sky, the crushing wave of psychic energy collides with the charging Sin.

The Hospital Homicides Murder Case starts with a literal bang when a young woman, fleeing from a mysterious man with a scar, collides with Gillian Hazeltine at the local airport.

As he leaves, backing out the tent-flap, all a-hum, he nearly collides with Mason, who mutters, "That likely, is it?

We can't compensate when our whole culture collides with another and absorbs and obliterates it.