Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

collisionless

/kəˈlɪʒ.ən.ləs/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.16 in modern English

Syllables: col-li-sion-less
IPA: /kəˈlɪʒ.ən.ləs/

15

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

That does not involve a collision between particles, bodies, plasmas or waves.

adj

Without the possibility of data packets colliding on the network.

adj

Without the possibility of items having the same value, which would prevent reliable lookup.

Example Sentences

"A token ring network is collisionless, but an Ethernet network is not."
"a collisionless hash"

Etymology

Etymology tree English collision Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English collisionless From collision + -less.

Derived Forms

collisionlessly collisionlessness

Questions

How do you pronounce collisionless?: The recorded pronunciation is /kəˈlɪʒ.ən.ləs/.
What does collisionless mean?: That does not involve a collision between particles, bodies, plasmas or waves.
Where does collisionless come from?: Etymology tree English collision Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les English -less English collisionless From collision + -less.

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