Catastrophic used in a sentence

Catastrophic in a sentence as an adjective

The depth of field is usually shallow, and that's great for 2D, but catastrophic for 3D.

Most of these devices suffer from catastrophic single-point failures in their designs.

"The institution of science is undergoing a catastrophic decline.

It could probably be described as catastrophic now. Twenty cases have been overturned so far, voiding almost 160 years of prison sentences.

Biologically, there are many stages where not having DNA error correction could be more catastrophic than usual.

However, when it does, the interruptions become catastrophic.

In the derivatives world, there's a saying for trying to bet against highly unlikely events with catastrophic risk for small gains: "picking up nickels in front of a steamroller.

Moodys was upbeat about Canada, but the Canadian press constantly presented the national finances as catastrophic.

I think the general aversion to nuclear is explained in part by our tendency to overestimate the risk of rare, catastrophic events and underestimate the risk of everyday events.

A DPS investigative commission found that Salvador was asked to correct mistakes in about a third of all the tests he ran. Periodic job evaluations noted that Salvador struggled with an overall understanding of chemistry and that his problems were very systemic and his work right on the edge of tolerable, though not catastrophic.

That the Enlightenment of the 18th Century brought forth modern notions of representative democracy was in large part a reaction to the failure and catastrophic overthrow of the feudal order that had existed prior to that time.

Typical Adobe rot is setting in; the last version had a catastrophic bug causing the xml manifest to simply not be read during the build process, because a critical "for" loop was referencing the child element of a nonexistent variable.

It was a dumb software bug introduced by refactoring, with catastrophic consequences -- but not inherently different from accidentally zeroing a password buffer before being finished with it, or failing to check for errors when reading entropy from /dev/random.