Catastrophe

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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 (drama), the climax and resolution of a plot in ancient Greek drama and poems
• 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, the strongest Limit Break for the Final Fantasy VII character Barret Wallace
• Catastrophe, an upcoming non-fiction book by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann

Catastrophic may refer to:

• Catastrophic failure, complete failure of a system from which recovery is impossible (e.g. a bridge collapses)
• Catastrophic, a difficulty rating in Dance Dance Revolution
• Catastrophic, a metal band and side project of Obituary's guitarist Trevor Peres

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