catastrophe – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
catastrophe
n.
disaster, calamity, cataclysm; fiasco, total failure
Catastrophe
Catastrophe or
catastrophic comes from the Greek κατά (
kata) = down; στροφή (
strophē) = turning. It may refer to:
A general or specific event
- Disaster
- Aral Sea catastrophe or Aral Sea crisis, the environmental, economic, health, social, and other disruptions caused by Soviet diversion of rivers into the Aral Sea
- The (Asia Minor) Catastrophe, a Greek name for the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey
- Blue sky catastrophe, a type of bifurcation of a periodic orbit, where the orbit vanishes into the blue sky
- Catastrophic failure, complete failure of a system from which recovery is impossible (e.g. a bridge collapses)
- Climatic catastrophe, forced transition of climate system to a new climate state at a rate which is more rapid than the rate of change of the external forcing
- Collapse of societies and cultures
- Cosmic catastrophe, thought experiment about what would happen if the sun were to suddenly disappear
- Ecological catastrophe, a disaster to the natural environment due to human activity
- Error catastrophe, extinction of an organism as a result of excessive mutations
- Garbage catastrophe, a theory that the process of aging may derive from imperfect clearance of oxidatively damaged, relatively indigestible material
- Impending climatic catastrophe, conjectured runaway climate change resulting from a rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system
- Infrared catastrophe or infrared divergence is a situation in particle physics in which a particular integral diverges
- Iron catastrophe, runaway melting of early earth's interior as a result of potential energy release from sinking iron and nickel melted by heat of radioactive decay
- Late Bronze Age collapse
- Malthusian catastrophe, prediction of a forced return to subsistence-level conditions once population growth has outpaced agricultural production
- Mitotic catastrophe, an event in which a cell is destroyed during mitosis
- The Nakba, the 1948 expulsion of Palestinians from their homes
- Nedelin catastrophe or Nedelin disaster, launch pad accident at Baikonur test range of Baikonur Cosmodrome
- Oxygen catastrophe, the biologically induced appearance of dioxygen (O2) in Earth's atmosphere
- Runaway climate change or Climatic catastrophe, hypothesized runaway global warming when a tipping point is exceeded
- Toba catastrophe hypothesis, hypothesis that the Toba supervolcanic eruption caused a global volcanic winter and 1,000-year-long cooling episode
- Ultraviolet catastrophe, the prediction by classical physics that a black body will emit radiation at infinite power
- Vacuum catastrophe, the discrepancy between theoretical and measured vacuum energy density in cosmology
- Volcanic catastrophe, the predicted global climatic disruptions caused by a supervolcanic eruption
catastrophe
Noun
1. an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"
(synonym) calamity, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm
(hypernym) misfortune, bad luck
(hyponym) act of God, force majeure, vis major, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty
2. a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune; "lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system"; "his policies were a disaster"
(synonym) disaster
(hypernym) adversity, hardship, hard knocks
3. a sudden violent change in the earth's surface
(synonym) cataclysm
(hypernym) geological phenomenon
(hyponym) nuclear winter
catastrophe
nf.
catastrophe, calamity, disaster; evil
catastrophé
adj.
flat on his face, in a terrible state
catastrophe
n.
katastrofa
