noun
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The act of collapsing.
example
She suffered a terrible collapse after slipping on the wet floor.
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Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset).
verb
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To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
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To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.
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Pyramid schemes tend to generate profits for a while and then collapse.
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To fold compactly.
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To hide additional directory (folder) levels below the selected directory (folder) levels. When a folder contains no additional folders, a minus sign (-) appears next to the folder.
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For several batsmen to get out in quick succession
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To cause something to collapse.
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Hurry up and collapse the tent so we can get moving.
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To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.
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The exhausted singer collapsed on stage and had to be taken to the hospital.
Examples of collapses in a Sentence
Next to Anegada Rock, a sand chute collapses into a rocky cleft.
The small alveolus will get smaller, the large one will get larger, and so on until the small alveolus collapses completely!
They do, however, have a history of batting collapses, and this was one of our more spectacular.
Western democracy will effectively cease to exist as the social infrastructure collapses under the weight of millions of unburied corpses.
In a severely paralyzed larynx, the airway actually gets smaller rather than bigger during strenuous exercise as the paralyzed side collapses inwards.
It is easy to overwork a paper shredder to the point that it collapses!
The moment meaningful communication collapses, marriages enter a downward spiral from which it's difficult to recover.
In young children, for example, obstructive sleep apnea may be treated by removing the tonsils, thus removing the soft tissue that collapses and causes the sleep apnea.
Obstructive sleep apnea is a serious condition that occurs when throat tissue collapses and obstructs the airway.
For example, if a vein in the left arm collapses, the nurse can put a new IV catheter into the right arm.
This story, published in 1941 in Astounding Stories, deals with a far away civilization that periodically collapses, like clockwork, every two thousand years.
Black holes are created when a star collapses and all surrounding matter is drawn into the hole.
Lord Selborne's health had, with the exception of two collapses in 1883 and 1888, which appear to have been due to overwork, continued excellent till February 1895, when he was attacked by influenza.
The Sophistes shows among other things that an identity-philosophy breaks down into a dualism of thought and expression, when it applies the predicate of unity to the real, just as the absolute pluralism on the other hand collapses into unity if it affirms or admits any form of relation whatsoever.
As the egg passes at last through the alarmingly distended neck, the snake makes some slight contortions and the swelling collapses, the shell having been filed through by the saw-like apparatus.