- Look up
catastrophe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Catastrophe or
catastrophic comes from the Gr**** κατά (kata) = down; στροφή (strophē) = turning...
- P**** by
catastrophe is an
academic urban legend proposing that if some
particular catastrophic event occurs,
students whose performance could have been...
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Catastrophe bonds (also
known as cat bonds) are risk-linked
securities that
transfer a
specified set of
risks from a
sponsor to investors. They were created...
- A
catastrophic illness is a
severe illness requiring prolonged hospitalization or recovery.
Examples include cancer,
heart attack or stroke.
These illnesses...
- The
Nedelin catastrophe or
Nedelin disaster,
known in
Russia as the
Catastrophe at
Baikonur Cosmodrome (Russian: Катастрофа на Байконуре, romanized: Katastrofa...
- 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...
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Catastrophe modeling (also
known as cat modeling) is the
process of
using computer-****isted
calculations to
estimate the
losses that
could be sustained...
- The
ultraviolet catastrophe, also
called the Rayleigh–Jeans
catastrophe, was the
prediction of late 19th
century to
early 20th
century classical physics...
- Pain
catastrophizing is the
tendency to
describe a pain
experience in more
exaggerated terms than the
average person, to
ruminate on it more (e.g., "I...
