catastrophë

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any large and disastrous event of great significance.

   “The Chernobyl disaster was a catastrophe.”

2. isim A disaster beyond expectations.
3. isim The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot; the dénouement.

   “Pat : he comes like the Cataſtrophe of the old Comedie : my Cue is villanous Melancholly, with a ſighe like Tom o’ Bedlam.”

4. isim A type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states.
5. isim Alternative spelling of catastrophe.

   “Homer adverts in two lines, strongly marked by that power, which he singularly possessed, of expressing the deepest pathetic in the simplest terms, to the catastrophë of the family of Œneus, king of the country, as to a story well known among his contemporaries.”