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Catastrophe or catastrophic comes from the Greek κατά (kata) = down; στροφή (strophē) = turning. It may refer to:
A general or specific event
- Disaster
- The (Asia Minor) Catastrophe, a Greek name for the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey
- Blue sky catastrophe, a type of bifurcation of a periodic orbit, where the orbit vanishes into the blue sky
- Catastrophic failure, complete failure of a system from which recovery is impossible (e.g. a bridge collapses)
- Climatic catastrophe, forced transition of climate system to a new climate state at a rate which is more rapid than the rate of change of the external forcing
- Cosmic catastrophe, thought experiment about what would happen if the sun were to suddenly disappear
- Ecological catastrophe, a disaster to the natural environment due to human activity
- Error catastrophe, extinction of an organism as a result of excessive mutations
- Impending climatic catastrophe, conjectured runaway climate change resulting from a rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system
- Infrared catastrophe or infrared divergence is a situation in particle physics in which a particular integral diverges
- Iron catastrophe, runaway melting of early earth's interior as a result of potential energy release from sinking iron and nickel melted by heat of radioactive decay
- Late Bronze Age collapse
- Malthusian catastrophe, prediction of a forced return to subsistence-level conditions once population growth has outpaced agricultural production
- Mitotic catastrophe, an event in which a cell is destroyed during mitosis
- The Nakba, the 1948 expulsion of Palestinians from their homes
- Nedelin catastrophe or Nedelin disaster, launch pad accident at Baikonur test range of Baikonur Cosmodrome
- Oxygen catastrophe, the biologically induced appearance of dioxygen (O2) in Earth's atmosphere
- Runaway climate change or Climatic catastrophe, hypothesized runaway global warming when a tipping point is exceeded
- Toba catastrophe hypothesis, hypothesis that the Toba supervolcanic eruption caused a global volcanic winter and 1,000-year-long cooling episode
- Ultraviolet catastrophe, the prediction by classical physics that a black body will emit radiation at infinite power
- Vacuum catastrophe, the discrepancy between theoretical and measured vacuum energy density in cosmology
Art, entertainment, and media
Fictional entities
- Catastrophe, the main antagonist in The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs
Literature
- Catastrophe (book), a non-fiction book by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann
- Catastrophe (drama), the climax and resolution of a plot in ancient Greek drama and poetry
- Catastrophe (play), a 1982 short play by Samuel Beckett
Music
- Catastrophic, a band featuring Trevor Peres
Television
- Catastrophe (2008 TV series), a five-part science series on Channel 4, presented by Tony Robinson
- Catastrophe (2015 TV series), a 2015 sitcom starring Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney
Mathematics
- Catastrophe theory, a theory by the French mathematician René Thom and the object of its study
See also
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