Catastrophe may mean:

• A disaster, sometimes used to mean an unusually severe disaster. (Most common meaning.)
• In ancient Greek poems and narrative plots, the catastrophe is the change or resolution of a plot, which concludes the piece.
• In the field of sociology it is defined as social change of an outstanding radical and rapid character, with highly magical explanations by victims and others.
• The title of a book by John Segenthaler Jr. about the Climate changes of 535-536.
• Catastrophe, a play by Samuel Beckett.

Related phrases:

• As a technical and a computer-related term, "catastrophic failure" usually refers to a failure within a system which leads to failure of the system as a whole.
• In insurance, catastrophe modeling is the process of projecting the losses which could be sustained due to an extreme natural or man-made catastrophic event.
• In mathematics, catastrophe theory studies how the behaviour of dynamical systems can change drastically with variations in certain parameters.
• In finance, catastrophe bonds are risk-linked securities used to transfer risks due to extreme natural or man-made disasters.

Katastrophe | Катастрофа