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Home Dictionary Name: collidercolliding beam machine
a particle accelerator in which two separate beams of particles usually of opposite charge are circulated in opposite directions and directed so as to collide head on called also colliding beam accelerator and collider...
Collide
To strike or dash against each other to come into collision to clash as the vessels collided their interests collided...
collider
a particle accelerator in which two separate beams of particles usually of opposite charge are circulated in opposite directions and directed so as to collide head on This technique allows the production of collisions of higher energy than would be possible with a single beam produced by the same device...
broad side
to collide with the broad side of...
clanging
emitting a series of clangs as of metal objects colliding...
Collisive
Colliding clashing...
midair
some point in the air above ground level as the planes collided in midair also used attributively as a midair collision...
plate tectonics
A geological theory which holds that the crust of the earth the lithosphere is divided into a small number of large separate plates which float and move slowly around on the more plastic asthenosphere breaking apart and moving away from each other at points where magma upwells from below and driven by such upwellings and other currents on the athenosphere sliding past each other colliding with each other and in some cases being submerged subducted one below the other This theory is now widely accepted and explains many geological phenomena such as the clustered locations of earthquakes mountain building volcanism and the similarities observed between the geology of continents such as South America and Africa which are now far apart but according to the theory were once joined together The motions of such tectonic plates are very slow typically only several centimeters per year but over tens and hundreds of millions of years cause very large changes in the relative positions of the cont...
Res ipsa loquitur
Res ipsa loquitur (the thing speaks for itself), a phrase used in actions for injury by negligence where no proof of negligence is required beyond the accident itself, which is such as necessarily to involve negligence, e.g., a collision between two trains upon a railway: see Carpue v. London, Brighton, and South Coast Ry. Co., (1844) 5 Ex. 787.Res ipsa loquitur (thing speaks for itself) is a principle which, in reality, belongs to the law of torts, Syed Akbar v. State of Karnataka, AIR 1979 SC 1848 (1851).The thing speaks for itself.This maxim is applicable in actions for injury by negligence where no proof of negligence is required beyond the accident itself, which is such as necessarily to involve negligence-- e.g., where a ship in motion collides with a ship at anchor. It ought not to be applied unless the facts proved are more consistent with negligence in the defendant than with a mere accident; nor ought it to be applied to evidence of an unexplained accident, if the evidence is...
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