- Look up
catastrophe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Catastrophe or
catastrophic comes from the Gr**** κατά (kata) = down; στροφή (strophē) = turning...
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actuarial science, engineering, meteorology, and seismology.
Natural catastrophes (sometimes
referred to as "nat cat") that are
modeled include: Hurricane...
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catastrophe is an
academic urban legend proposing that if some
particular catastrophic event occurs,
students whose performance could have been...
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single cusp
structure remaining when a > 0.
Umbilic catastrophes are
examples of
corank 2
catastrophes. They can be
observed in
optics in the
focal surfaces...
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catastrophic failure is a
sudden and
total failure from
which recovery is impossible.
Catastrophic failures often lead to
cascading systems failure....
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November 2010. Love and
Other Catastrophes at IMDb Love and
Other Catastrophes at the TCM
Movie Database Love and
Other Catastrophes at Oz
Movies Roger Ebert...
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linked to
major natural catastrophes.
Catastrophe bonds are
typically used by
insurers as an
alternative to
traditional catastrophe reinsurance. For example...
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Random House; New York, 2009; p. 405. Chertok,
Boris (2006). "Chapter 32:
Catastrophes".
Rockets and People,
Volume 2:
Creating a
Rocket Industry (PDF). NASA...
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ultraviolet catastrophe, also
called the Rayleigh–Jeans
catastrophe, was the
prediction of late 19th
century and
early 20th
century classical physics...
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human well-being on a
global scale".
Humanity has
suffered large catastrophes before. Some of
these have
caused serious damage but were only local...
