It could be protons bouncing around in a particle accelerator, two cars failing to stop at an intersection, or the priorities of two people with very different goals. When things crash together, they collide.
To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash;
Verb
crash together with violent impact; "The cars collided"; "Two meteors clashed"
Verb
cause to collide; "The physicists collided the particles"
Verb
be incompatible; be or come into conflict; "These colors clash"
v. i.
To strike or dash against each other; to come into
collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests
collided.
v. t.
To strike or dash against.
Collide
Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate.
No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding.
Collide
Scintillations are . . . inflammable effluencies from the bodies collided.
To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash;
To strike or dash against.
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