Look up catastrophe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Catastrophe or catastrophic comes from the Greek κατά (kata) = down; στροφή (strophē) = turning...

The Colts Catastrophe was an unsuccessful National Football League (NFL) trick play attempted by the Indianapolis Colts against the New England Patriots...

The ultraviolet catastrophe, also called the Rayleigh–Jeans catastrophe, was the prediction of late 19th century to early 20th century classical physics...

The Nedelin catastrophe or Nedelin disaster, known in Russia as the Catastrophe at Baikonur Cosmodrome (Russian: Катастрофа на Байконуре, romanized: Katastrofa...

Catastrophe is a British television sitcom first broadcast on 19 January 2015 on Channel 4. It is created, written by, and stars Sharon Horgan and Rob...

In mathematics, catastrophe theory is a branch of bifurcation theory in the study of dynamical systems; it is also a particular special case of more general...

Pass by catastrophe is an academic urban legend proposing that if some particular catastrophic event occurs, students whose performance could have been...

Error catastrophe refers to the cumulative loss of genetic information in a lineage of organisms due to high mutation rates. The mutation rate above which...

A global catastrophic risk or a doomsday scenario is a hypothetical event that could damage human well-being on a global scale, even endangering or destroying...

Politics of Catastrophe is a 2021 book by Niall Ferguson that offers a global history of disaster and examines how leaders respond to catastrophes. The book...

"Genesis and Catastrophe: A True Story" is a short story written by Roald Dahl first published in Playboy magazine and included in his book Kiss Kiss...

long-term social, economic, and ecological consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe. CRDP works in the four most affected Ukrainian areas: Kyivska, Zhytomyrska...

include natural disasters, accidents, military/terrorist attacks or global catastrophes such as a pandemic. A subgenre of action films, these films usually feature...

"The Catastrophe of Success" is an essay by Tennessee Williams about art and the artist's role in society. It is often included in paper editions of The...

Catastrophe modeling (also known as cat modeling) is the process of using computer-assisted calculations to estimate the losses that could be sustained...

of triggering a population decline. This event, called a Malthusian catastrophe (also known as a Malthusian trap, population trap, Malthusian check,...

Catastrophe Ballet is the second studio album by American rock band Christian Death. It was released in 1984, through record label Contempo. Besides founder...

The full catastrophe is a comic phrase usually used to characterize any kind of disaster. The phrase appears in the 1964 film Zorba the Greek, where it...

Catastrophe is a 1977 American documentary film that is written and directed by Larry Savadove and narrated by actor William Conrad about natural and...

Scenarios in which a global catastrophic risk creates harm have been widely discussed. Some sources of catastrophic risk are anthropogenic (caused by...

In drama, particularly the tragedies of classical antiquity, the catastrophe is the final resolution in a poem or narrative plot, which unravels the intrigue...

Dear Catastrophe Waitress is the sixth studio album by the Scottish indie pop band Belle & Sebastian, released on 6 October 2003 on Rough Trade Records...

The Otrar Catastrophe was a siege that took place between December 1219 and February 1220 during the Mongol conquest of the Khwarazmian Empire at Otrar...

An environmental disaster or ecological disaster is defined as a catastrophic event regarding the natural environment that is due to human activity. This...

similar terms in use such as climate dystopia, collapse, endgame, and catastrophe. Some researchers have speculated that society cannot comprehend an accurate...

Catastrophe bonds (also known as cat bonds) are a subset of insurance-linked securities (ILS) that transfer a specified set of risks from a sponsor to...

A catastrophic illness is a severe illness requiring prolonged hospitalization or recovery. Examples include cancer, heart attack or stroke. These illnesses...

Prophecies of Nostradamus (ノストラダムスの大予言, Nosutoradamusu no daiyogen) is a 1974 disaster film by Toshio Masuda, based on a 1973 novel by Ben Goto, itself...

post-apocalyptic, set after the event. The time may be directly after the catastrophe, focusing on the psychology of survivors, the way to keep the human race...

Mitotic catastrophe has been defined as either a cellular mechanism to prevent potentially cancerous cells from proliferating or as a mode of cellular...