- Look up
escalation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Escalation is the
process of
increasing or rising,
derived from the
concept of an escalator. Specific...
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escalation. De-
escalation may also
refer to
approaches in
conflict resolution, by
which specific measures are
taken to
avoid behaviours that
escalate...
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Conflict escalation is the
process by
which conflicts grow in
severity or
scale over time. That may
refer to
conflicts between individuals or
groups in...
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Escalation of
commitment is a
human behavior pattern in
which an
individual or
group facing increasingly negative outcomes from a decision, action, or...
- On 24
February 2022,
Russia invaded Ukraine in a
major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War,
which had
started in 2014. The invasion, the
largest and...
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Horizontal escalation is a
direct contrast to
vertical escalation which employs types of
weapons not
previously used in the conflict. That type of
escalation also...
- Cost
escalation can be
defined as
changes in the cost or
price of
specific goods or
services in a
given economy over a period. This is
similar to the concepts...
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Privilege escalation is the act of
exploiting a bug, a
design flaw, or a
configuration oversight in an
operating system or
software application to gain...
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Technology pla**** a
significant role in
World War II. Some of the
technologies used
during the war were
developed during the
interwar years of the 1920s...
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Nuclear escalation is the
concept of a
conflict escalating from
conventional warfare to
nuclear warfare. The
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)...
