Collision (disambiguation)

A collision is an isolated event in which two or more bodies exert relatively strong forces on each other for a relatively short time. This may specifically refer to:

• Traffic collision, two vehicles colliding
• Mid-air collision, two planes colliding
• Ship collision, two ships colliding

Collision may also refer to:

Arts

• Collision (band), a heavy metal band in the 1990s
• Collision (film), a documentary of a debate about Christianity between Christopher Hitchens and Douglas Wilson
• A Collision, an album by David Crowder Band
• Collision (TV series) is a 2009 miniseries on ITV1
• "Collision" (CSI: Miami), an episode of CSI: Miami
• "Collision" (Lost), an episode of the television show Lost
• "Collision" (Heroes), an episode of the television show Heroes
• Collisions (album), an album by Calla
• Collision, a multi-award winning abstract short film by Max Hattler (2005)

Science

• Continental collision in plate tectonics

Computers

• Collision detection, algorithms for detecting collisions between objects in a simulation
• Hash collision, when a cryptographic hash function returns the same output for two different inputs
• Write collision, when data is lost due to an attempt by multiple entities to simultaneously write to a single memory location

Networking and telecommunications

A collision is the situation that occurs when two or more demands are made simultaneously on equipment that can handle only one at any given instant.^[1] It may refer to:

• Collision domain, a physical network segment where data packets can "collide"
  • Carrier sense multiple access with collision avoidance, (CSMA/CA) used for example with wireless LANs
  • Carrier sense multiple access with collision detection, (CSMA/CD) used with Ethernet
• Late collision, a specific type of collision that shouldn't occur on properly operating networks

See also

• All pages beginning with "collision"
• All pages with titles containing "collision"
• Collide (disambiguation)

References

1. ^ Source: from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188

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