Collapse

Collapse may refer to:

  • Collapse, the action a collapsible or telescoping object does
  • Collapse (medical)
  • Collapse (sports)
  • Collapse (structural)
    • Cave-in is a kind of structural collapse
    • Collapse of the World Trade Center, a 2001 event
  • Collapse (topology), a mathematical concept
  • Wave function collapse, in physics
  • Societal collapse
    • Dissolution of the Soviet Union, the collapse of Soviet federalism

Famous quotes containing the word collapse:

    “The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.”
    —Jerome (c. 340–420)

    “At the crash of economic collapse of which the rumblings can already be heard, the sleeping soldiers of the proletariat will awake as at the fanfare of the Last Judgment and the corpses of the victims of the struggle will arise and demand an accounting from those who are loaded down with curses.”
    —Karl Liebknecht (1871–1919)

    “Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.”
    —George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)