- Look up
catastrophe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Catastrophe or
catastrophic comes from the Gr**** κατά (kata) = down; στροφή (strophē) = turning...
- 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...
- A
catastrophic failure is a
sudden and
total failure from
which recovery is impossible.
Catastrophic failures often lead to
cascading systems failure....
- A
catastrophic kill, K-Kill or
complete kill is
damage inflicted on an
armored vehicle that
renders it
permanently non-functional (most
commonly via fire...
- of the
delivery of
catastrophic illness care
encourages the use of
innovative therapies.
Medicare contains a
benefit for
catastrophic illness. MR Gillick;...
- In
numerical analysis,
catastrophic cancellation is the
phenomenon that
subtracting good
approximations to two
nearby numbers may
yield a very bad approximation...
- In psychiatry,
catastrophic schizophrenia or
schizocaria is an
outdated term for a rare,
acute form of
schizophrenia leading to
chronic psychosis and deterioration...
-
Catastrophic interference, also
known as
catastrophic forgetting, is the
tendency of an
artificial neural network to
abruptly and
drastically forget previously...
- long-term social, economic, and
ecological consequences of the
Chernobyl catastrophe. CRDP
works in the four most
affected Ukrainian areas: Kyivska, Zhytomyrska...
-
legal term
catastrophic injury,
which is
based on the
definition used by the
American Medical ****ociation. The
National Center for
Catastrophic Sport Injury...
