- Source: Catastrophe
Catastrophe or catastrophic comes from the Greek κατά (kata) = down; στροφή (strophē) = turning (Greek: καταστροφή). It may refer to the following:
A general or specific event
Disaster, a devastating event
The Asia Minor Catastrophe, a Greek name for the 1923 Greek defeat at the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922) and the population exchange between Greece and Turkey after the defeat
The Holocaust, also known by the Hebrew name HaShoah which translates to "The Catastrophe"
The Chernobyl Catastrophe, a name of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster
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
Ecological catastrophe, a disaster to the natural environment due to human activity
Error catastrophe, extinction of an organism as a result of excessive mutations
The Ikiza, which translates to the catastrophe from Kirundi
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 in Arabic.
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
Art, entertainment, and media
= Fictional entities
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Catastrophe, the main antagonist in The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs
= Film
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Catastrophe (film), a 1977 American documentary film
The Catastrophe (film), a 2011 American short film
= Literature
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Catastrophe (book), a 2009 non-fiction book by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
Catastrophe (drama), the climax and resolution of a plot in ancient Greek drama and poetry
Catastrophe (play), a 1982 short play by Samuel Beckett
Catastrophe: Risk and Response, a 2004 non-fiction book by Richard Posner
= Music
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Catastrophic (band), a band featuring Trevor Peres
= Television
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Catastrophe (2008 TV series), a five-part science series on Channel 4, presented by Tony Robinson
Catastrophe (2015 TV series), a 2015 sitcom starring Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney
Mathematics
Catastrophe theory, a theory by the French mathematician René Thom and the object of its study
See also
Cape Catastrophe
Catastrophisation
Catastrophism
Katastrophe (disambiguation)
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