Phrase Hound found 10 phrases and 14 compound words that contain collapse. The most common are listed below. Open collapse in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 10
- gravitational collapseThe stage in the evolution of a star in which the pressure of the star is insufficient to maintain it at a stable size, and its material falls inward under its own gravity, eventually forming a black hole or a neutron star, and sometimes …
- context collapseThe flattening of multiple audiences into a single context, so that information intended for one audience finds its way to another, as with television and the Internet.
- pedigree collapseThe phenomenon in which ancestral inbreeding causes the number of a descendant’s distinct ancestors to be smaller than that predicted by a binary tree (∑ᵢ₌₁ⁿ 2ⁱ, where n represents the number of generations).
- wavefunction collapseThe phenomenon in which a wavefunction — initially in a superposition of several different possible eigenstates — appears to reduce to a single one of those states after interaction with an observer: the reduction of the physical …
- Bronze Age collapseThe transition from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age in the eastern Mediterranean and southwestern Asia, characterised by the collapse of the Hittite, Egyptian, Mycenean and Canaanite civilisations.
- Late Bronze Age collapseA transition in the Aegean Region, Southwestern Asia and the Eastern Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age that historians believe was violent, sudden, and culturally disruptive.
- batting collapseA succession of batsmen or batswomen getting out without adding many runs to the team's score.
- model collapseDegradation of output quality caused by training on synthetic data.
- colony collapse disorderA mysterious and widespread phenomenon of the sudden disappearance of colonies of bees.
- fantasy collapseThe point at which the assumed truths of an artificial or imagined reality are eroded to reveal actual reality.
Compound words 14
- collapsarThe black hole thought to form following the gravitational collapse of a massive star.
- collapsitarianA person who desires or predicts a social or economic collapse.
- collapsologyThe transdisciplinary study of the collapse of industrial civilization, and what might succeed it.
- collapsismThe belief that a system or entity will collapse.
- postcollapseAfter a collapse.
- uncollapseTo expand (something previously collapsed).
- collapserA person or thing that collapses.
- collapsinAny of a family of glycoproteins that inhibit regeneration of mature neurones
- collapsiumA fictional material usually described as having an extremely high density.
- collapsogramA spectrum obtained by taking the average of a number of observations