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Catastrophe
Catastrophe Ca*tas"tro*phe, n. [L. catastropha, Gr. ?, fr. ?
to turn up and down, to overturn; kata` down + ? to turn.]
1. An event producing a subversion of the order or system of
things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or
disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity; great
misfortune.
The strange catastrophe of affairs now at London.
--Bp. Burnet.
The most horrible and portentous catastrophe that
nature ever yet saw. --Woodward.
2. The final event in a romance or a dramatic piece; a
denouement, as a death in a tragedy, or a marriage in a
comedy.
3. (Geol.) A violent and widely extended change in the
surface of the earth, as, an elevation or subsidence of
some part of it, effected by internal causes. --Whewell.
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Nedelin disaster,
known in
Russia as the
Catastrophe at
Baikonur Cosmodrome (Russian: Катастрофа на Байконуре, romanized: Katastrofa...
- 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...
- the
largest known explosive eruptions in the Earth's history. The Toba
catastrophe theory is that this
event caused a
severe global volcanic winter of six...
- The
ultraviolet catastrophe, also
called the Rayleigh–Jeans
catastrophe, was the
prediction of late 19th
century to
early 20th
century classical physics...
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papers along with the
discredited book Chernobyl:
Consequences of the
Catastrophe for
People and the Environment. In 1996,
geneticist colleagues Ronald...
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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...
