Catastrophe
Wikimedia disambiguation page
Catastrophe or catastrophic comes from the Greek κατά (kata) = down; στροφή (strophē) = turning (Greek: καταστροφή). It may refer to the following:
A general or specific event
Disaster, a devastating event
The Asia Minor Catastrophe, a Greek name for the 1923 Greek defeat at the Greco-Turkish War
The Holocaust, also known by the Hebrew name HaShoah which translates to "The Catastrophe"
The Chernobyl catastrophe, also known as the Chernobyl disaster
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.
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