Catastrophe in a sentence as a noun

Why does a rebase-based workflow lead this to be a catastrophe?

This is incredibly hard and can end in catastrophe if you don't talk to someone about it.

If drives failing for you is a catastrophe, you should consider taking backup media with you.

I think the headline of the article is pretty misleading as he means that Windows 8 is a catastrophe for Steam because of the Windows 8 app store.

The quote in both the linked article and the AllThingsD piece indicates that he said "I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space.

But we've managed to avoid catastrophe so far, and with a global population of 7 billion, we're further from extinction than ever.

How many incorrect mental models are formed, and then never corrected until catastrophe.

A business catastrophe, not a usability or market catastrophe.

If this continues unchecked, we will run out of available carbon and life on this planet will die off. Thankfully, we humans have averted this catastrophe by finding a way to recycle the formerly lost carbon and return it to the environment.

In particular, recent discoveries suggest that the adoption of agriculture, supposedly our most decisive step toward a better life, was in many ways a catastrophe from which we have never recovered.

I think it's why ultimately it will take gov intervention or a market catastrophe that screws over all the speculators to finally destroy such interest in Bitcoin and finally give it a chance to start over again... as a currency.

The recovery mechanism is executed only as part of a function's state being torn down after an error, which is sufficient to handle catastrophe but requires no extra control structures and, when used well, can result in clean error-handling code.

Catastrophe definitions

noun

an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"

See also: calamity disaster tragedy cataclysm

noun

a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune; "lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system"; "his policies were a disaster"

See also: disaster

noun

a sudden violent change in the earth's surface

See also: cataclysm