- Look up
catastrophe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Catastrophe or
catastrophic comes from the Gr**** κατά (kata) = down; στροφή (strophē) = turning...
- A
catastrophic failure is a
sudden and
total failure from
which recovery is impossible.
Catastrophic failures often lead to
cascading systems failure....
- P**** by
catastrophe is an
academic urban legend proposing that if some
particular catastrophic event occurs,
students whose performance could have been...
- The
Nedelin catastrophe or
Nedelin disaster,
known in
Russia as the
Catastrophe at
Baikonur Cosmodrome (Russian: Катастрофа на Байконуре, romanized: Katastrofa...
- The
ultraviolet catastrophe, also
called the Rayleigh–Jeans
catastrophe, was the
prediction of late 19th
century and
early 20th
century classical physics...
- 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...
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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...
- The full
catastrophe is a
comic phrase usually used to
characterize any kind of disaster. The
phrase appears in the 1964 film
Zorba the Gr****,
where it...
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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...
