collision detection (English, noun)
expansion: collision detection (countable and uncountable, plural collision detections)
Senses:
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
video-games
glosses: The process or mechanism of determining whether two shapes are partially occupying the same space.
tags: countable
uncountable
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: A mechanism in Ethernet to detect when two computers are sending frames at the same time, and also to deal with such collisions when they happen.
tags: countable
uncountable
Forms:
form: collision detections
tags: plural