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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Wiktionary|catastrophe}}<br />
'''Catastrophe''' or '''catastrophic''' comes from the Greek κατά (''kata'') = down; στροφή (''strophē'') = turning ({{langx|el|[[wikt:καταστροφή|καταστροφή]]|link=no}}). It may refer to the following:<br />
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==A general or specific event==<br />
* [[Disaster]], a devastating event<br />
* The [[Asia Minor]] Catastrophe, a Greek name for the 1923 Greek defeat at the [[Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922)]] and the [[population exchange between Greece and Turkey]] after the defeat<br />
* [[The Holocaust]], also known by the Hebrew name ''HaShoah'' which translates to "The Catastrophe"<br />
* The Chernobyl Catastrophe, a name of the 1986 [[Chernobyl disaster]]<br />
* [[Blue sky catastrophe]], a type of bifurcation of a periodic orbit, where the orbit ''vanishes into the blue sky''<br />
* [[Catastrophic failure]], complete failure of a system from which recovery is impossible (e.g. a bridge collapses)<br />
* [[Abrupt climate change|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<br />
* [[Environmental disaster|Ecological catastrophe]], a disaster to the natural environment due to human activity<br />
* [[Error catastrophe]], extinction of an organism as a result of excessive mutations<br />
* The [[Ikiza]], which translates to the catastrophe from [[Kirundi]]<br />
* [[Global warming|Impending climatic catastrophe]], conjectured runaway climate change resulting from a rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system<br />
* [[Infrared catastrophe]] or infrared divergence is a situation in particle physics in which a particular integral diverges<br />
* [[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<br />
* [[Late Bronze Age collapse]]<br />
* [[Malthusian catastrophe]], prediction of a forced return to subsistence-level conditions once population growth has outpaced agricultural production<br />
* [[Mitotic catastrophe]], an event in which a cell is destroyed during mitosis<br />
* The [[1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight|Nakba]] in Arabic.<br />
* [[Nedelin catastrophe]] or Nedelin disaster, launch pad accident at Baikonur test range of Baikonur Cosmodrome<br />
* [[Great Oxygenation Event|Oxygen catastrophe]], the biologically induced appearance of dioxygen (O2) in Earth's atmosphere<br />
* [[Runaway climate change|Runaway climate change or Climatic catastrophe]], hypothesized runaway global warming when a tipping point is exceeded<br />
* [[Toba catastrophe theory|Toba catastrophe hypothesis]], hypothesis that the Toba supervolcanic eruption caused a global volcanic winter and 1,000-year-long cooling episode<br />
* [[Ultraviolet catastrophe]], the prediction by classical physics that a black body will emit radiation at infinite power<br />
* [[Cosmological constant problem|Vacuum catastrophe]], the discrepancy between theoretical and measured vacuum energy density in cosmology<br />
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==Art, entertainment, and media==<br />
===Fictional entities===<br />
* Catastrophe, the main antagonist in ''[[The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs]]''<br />
===Film===<br />
* [[Catastrophe (film)|''Catastrophe'' (film)]], a 1977 American documentary film<br />
* [[The Catastrophe (film)|''The Catastrophe'' (film)]], a 2011 American short film<br />
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===Literature===<br />
* [[Catastrophe (Morris and McGann book)|''Catastrophe'' (Morris and McGann book)]], a 2009 non-fiction book by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann<br />
* [[Catastrophe (drama)]], the climax and resolution of a plot in ancient Greek drama and poetry<br />
* [[Catastrophe (play)|''Catastrophe'' (play)]], a 1982 short play by Samuel Beckett<br />
* ''[[Catastrophe: Risk and Response]]'', a 2004 non-fiction book by Richard Posner<br />
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===Music===<br />
* [[Catastrophic (band)]], a band featuring Trevor Peres<br />
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===Television===<br />
* [[Catastrophe (2008 TV series)|''Catastrophe'' (2008 TV series)]], a five-part science series on Channel 4, presented by Tony Robinson<br />
* [[Catastrophe (2015 TV series)|''Catastrophe'' (2015 TV series)]], a 2015 sitcom starring Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney<br />
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==Mathematics==<br />
* [[Catastrophe theory]], a theory by the French mathematician René Thom and the object of its study<br />
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==See also==<br />
* [[Cape Catastrophe]]<br />
* [[Catastrophisation]]<br />
* [[Catastrophism]]<br />
* [[Katastrophe (disambiguation)]]<br />
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