Catastrophe
A catastrophe is an extremely large-scale disaster, a horrible event.
It may also refer to:
- Catastrophe bond, a risk-linked security used to share risks with bond investors
- 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, the main antagonist in The Secret Files of the Spy Dogs
- Catastrophe modeling, in insurance, projecting of the cost of losses due to a catastrophic event
- Catastrophe (play), a 1982 short play by Samuel Beckett
- Catastrophe theory, a field of mathematics that studies how the behavior of dynamic systems can change drastically with small variations
- Microtubular catastrophe, a feature of the cytoskeleton in eukaryotic cells
- Catastrophe (TV series), a five-part science series on Channel 4
- The (Asia Minor) Catastrophe, a Greek name for the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey
- Oxygen catastrophe, the biologically induced appearance of free oxygen in Earth's atmosphere
- Catastrophic failure, complete failure of a system from which recovery is impossible (e.g. a bridge collapses)
- Catastrophic, a metal band and side project of Obituary's guitarist Trevor Peres
See also