noun

collider

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noun

A machine that accelerates particles and smashes them together so physicists can study what comes out.

"The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest particle collider ever built."

"Scientists used the collider to confirm the existence of the Higgs boson."

In video games and simulations, an invisible shape used to detect when two objects touch.

"The programmer added a collider to the wall so the character couldn't walk through it."

How to Use Collider

Learner’s notes

In plain EnglishA physics machine (or game-engine tool) built specifically to make things collide.

Common pairings

particle collider hadron collider

colliders plural

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The Large Hadron _____ is the biggest particle collider ever built.

From collide plus the agent suffix -er, "a thing that collides (particles)."

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