- 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...
- In psychiatry,
catastrophic schizophrenia or
schizocaria is an
outdated term for a rare,acute form of
schizophrenia leading to
chronic psychosis and deterioration...
- A
catastrophic illness is a
severe illness requiring prolonged hospitalization or recovery.
Examples include cancer,
heart attack or stroke.
These illnesses...
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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
catastrophic kill, K-Kill or
complete kill is
damage inflicted on an
armored vehicle that
renders it
permanently non-functional (most
commonly via fire...
- The
Nedelin catastrophe or
Nedelin disaster,
known in
Russia as the
Catastrophe at
Baikonur Cosmodrome (Russian: Катастрофа на Байконуре, romanized: Katastrofa...
- A
catastrophic injury is a
severe injury to the spine,
spinal cord, or brain. It may also
include skull or
spinal fractures. This is a
subset of the definition...
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Error catastrophe refers to the ****ulative loss of
genetic information in a
lineage of
organisms due to high
mutation rates. The
mutation rate
above which...
- The
ultraviolet catastrophe, also
called the Rayleigh–Jeans
catastrophe, was the
prediction of late 19th
century and
early 20th
century classical physics...
