- 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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catastrophe is an
academic urban legend proposing that if some
particular catastrophic event occurs,
students whose performance could have been...
- A
catastrophic illness is a
severe illness requiring prolonged hospitalization or recovery.
Examples include cancer,
heart attack or stroke.
These illnesses...
- A
catastrophic failure is a
sudden and
total failure from
which recovery is impossible.
Catastrophic failures often lead to
cascading systems failure....
- long-term social, economic, and
ecological consequences of the
Chernobyl catastrophe. CRDP
works in the four most
affected Ukrainian areas: Kyivska, Zhytomyrska...
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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
Nedelin catastrophe or
Nedelin disaster,
known in
Russia as the
Catastrophe at
Baikonur Cosmodrome (Russian: Катастрофа на Байконуре, romanized: Katastrofa...
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include natural disasters, accidents, military/terrorist
attacks or
global catastrophes such as a pandemic. A
subgenre of
action films,
these films usually feature...
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Catastrophe bonds (also
known as cat bonds) are a
subset of insurance-linked
securities (ILS) that
transfer a
specified set of
risks from a
sponsor to...
- 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...