collisionless
adjEtymology From collision + -less.
1
Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Physics Of an interaction That does not involve a collision between particles, bodies, plasmas or waves.
Or of the transfer of energy
2
Computing, Computing theory, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Without the possibility of data packets colliding on the network.
- A token ring network is collisionless, but an Ethernet network is not.
3
Computing, Computing theory, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences Without the possibility of items having the same value, which would prevent reliable lookup.
- a collisionless hash
- Derived terms
- collisionlessly, collisionlessness