(physics) Any of several forms of particle accelerator in which two opposing beams of particles collide.
Used in a Sentence
collider
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for collider.
Editorial note
Imagine that you have a lava object with a trigger collider (that means that it doesn't influence the physics) and a Lava custom component (MonoBehaviour) on it.
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Quick take
(physics) Any of several forms of particle accelerator in which two opposing beams of particles collide.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of collider gathered in one view.
(video games) A model of the shape of an object for purposes of collision detection.
(graph theory) A node in a causal graph that has at least two incoming edges.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for collider.
noun
(physics) Any of several forms of particle accelerator in which two opposing beams of particles collide.
noun
(video games) A model of the shape of an object for purposes of collision detection.
noun
(graph theory) A node in a causal graph that has at least two incoming edges.
Example sentences
Imagine that you have a lava object with a trigger collider (that means that it doesn't influence the physics) and a Lava custom component (MonoBehaviour) on it.
It may interest / surprise you to know that the russians were also building / built a super collider near moscow.
In high energy physics people compute scattering amplitudes, the goal is to estimate how many events of a particular kind a detector in a collider experiment will see at various energies.
They do use a single instance of an empty collider to do the actual collision check, but otherwise they're pretty fast.
Is it just me or is the large Hadron collider really scary in how it can start a black hole chain reaction?
They now know where to go and how to access certain parts of the collider, thus far only known to a selected few.
There is a mini collider that is active in one of its 'corners'.
Altho I enjoyed Adam Curry's crackpot theory on it being related to the large hadron collider and the Obama visit.
Are you suggesting that the Large Hadron Collider should be shut down?
This reminds me of the cancelled Superconducting Super Collider in Texas.
When the collider begins to do real physics next year, it will run at half its original design energy, with protons of 3.5 trillion electron volts.
But rather it is closer to the argument that the Large Hadron Collider will not create a black hole that the whole planet will be sucked into.
Quote examples
For anyone interested, I recently finished Don Lincoln's "The Quantum Frontier: The Large Hadron Collider" and "The Large Hadron Collider" (they're kind of a series, although they have a lot of overlap).
It's a bit odd to see "Large Hadron Collider project gets underway" in the same category as "Hubble [Space Telescope]", given that HST got underway in the 1970s.
Proper noun examples
I have thought the same thing about the Superconducting Super Collider.
Not all of that's available for interaction, so: > For the Oh-My-God particle, this gives 7.5×10^14 eV, roughly 50 times the collision energy of the Large Hadron Collider.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use collider in a sentence?
Imagine that you have a lava object with a trigger collider (that means that it doesn't influence the physics) and a Lava custom component (MonoBehaviour) on it.
What does collider mean?
(physics) Any of several forms of particle accelerator in which two opposing beams of particles collide.
What part of speech is collider?
collider is commonly used as noun.