supercollision

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ collision.

Noun

supercollision (plural supercollisions)

1. A very powerful or large-scale collision.
   • 1994, Alexei V. Byalko, Nuclear Waste Disposal: Geophysical Safety, volume 1, page 165:

     Is it possible that the majority of asteroids were born is ^[sic] this very supercollision that created the moon?

2. (physics) The kind of high-energy collision that occurs in a supercollider.
3. (physics) The simultaneous collision of three or more particles.