collider

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collider

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Etymology

From collide +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈlaɪdɚ/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

collider (plural colliders)

1. (physics) Any of several forms of particle accelerator in which two opposing beams of particles collide.
2. (graph theory) A node in a causal graph that has at least two incoming edges.
3. (video games) A model of the shape of an object for purposes of collision detection.
   • 2014, Jeff W. Murray, C# Game Programming Cookbook for Unity 3D, page 339:

     The race controller will check for a trigger hit between this player's collider and the start/finish line trigger, but this script has an OnTriggerEnter function to check for triggers used to force a respawn.

Derived terms

• supercollider

Translations

particle accelerator

Basque: talkagailu (eu) Catalan: col·lisonador m Chinese: Mandarin: 對撞機 / 对撞机 (zh) (duìzhuàngjī) Finnish: törmäytin (fi) French: collisionneur (fr) m Japanese: コライダー (koraidā) Macedonian: судирач m (sudirač) Polish: zderzacz (pl) m Portuguese: colisionador m, colisor (pt) m Russian: колла́йдер (ru) m (kollájdɛr) Spanish: colisionador m