collapse
Collapse (from the Latin collabi for "collapse"), German collapse , stands for:
- a circulatory collapse, see syncope (medicine)
- Collapsed lungs from air entering the chest
- Nervous breakdown , psychological emergency
- an economic or financial crash of a system (or a person)
- a collapse of the wave function
- Gravitational collapse , collapse of a massive star
- for a model of the end of the universe, see Big Rip
- a major failure of the power supply, see power failure
- Collapse (book) , a book by Jared Diamond about the cause of society's demise
- Kollaps (album) , an album by the band Einstürzende Neubauten
- Crime scene: collapse , a TV crime thriller
See also:
- collapsologie , word creation by Pablo Servigne
- Collapse theory of capitalism
- The Collapse , novel by the writer Émile Zola
Wiktionary: collapse - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: collapse - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
Wiktionary: collapse - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations