collapse
English
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Etymology
[edit]From Latin collāpsus (past participle of collābor).
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]collapse (third-person singular simple present collapses, present participle collapsing, simple past and past participle collapsed)
- (intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
- 1843, Samuel Maunder, The Scientific and Literary Treasury:
- A balloon collapses when the gas escapes from it.
- (intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.
- Pyramid schemes tend to generate profits for a while and then collapse.
- (intransitive) To fold compactly.
- (transitive, computing) In a hierarchical list (such as a directory tree or table of contents), to hide the subentries of (an entry).
- Antonym: expand
- (intransitive, cricket) To suffer a batting collapse.
- (transitive) To cause something to collapse.
- Hurry up and collapse the tent so we can get moving.
- 2023 August 9, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Family-friendly travel: new standard covers pushchairs”, in RAIL, number 989, page 26:
- Thomas added: "We presented our experiences of frantically trying to collapse a pram, surrounded by loads of grumpy commuters.
- (intransitive) To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.
- The exhausted singer collapsed on stage and had to be taken to the hospital.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to fall down suddenly; to cave in
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to cease to function due to a sudden breakdown
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to fold compactly
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computing: to hide additional directory (folder) levels
cricket: for several batsmen to get out in quick succession
to cause to collapse
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to pass out and fall to the floor or ground
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Noun
[edit]collapse (countable and uncountable, plural collapses)
- The act of collapsing.
- She suffered a terrible collapse after slipping on the wet floor.
- 2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, in BBC Sport[1]:
- The top six are assured of continental competition and after making a statement of intent against Stoke, it would take a dramatic collapse for Newcastle to surrender their place.
- 2021 May 5, Paul Clifton, “Network News: Heathrow Western Rail Access scheme 'on hold'”, in RAIL, number 930, page 26:
- However the collapse in demand for rail and air travel caused by the pandemic has had a knock-on effect for the project's funding.
- Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset). (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (cricket) Short for batting collapse.
Derived terms
[edit]- batting collapse
- Bronze Age collapse
- collapsar
- collapsin
- collapsism
- collapsitarian
- collapsium
- collapsogram
- collapsology
- colony collapse disorder
- context collapse
- fantasy collapse
- gravitational collapse
- Late Bronze Age collapse
- model collapse
- paleocollapse
- pedigree collapse
- postcollapse
- precollapse
- vino collapso
- wavefunction collapse
Translations
[edit]act of collapsing
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one-valued function
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Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]collapse
- inflection of collapser:
Latin
[edit]Participle
[edit]collāpse
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