Collapse

/kəˈlæps/

noun

  1. The act of collapsing.

    She suffered a terrible collapse after slipping on the wet floor.

  2. Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset).

verb

  1. To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.

  2. 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.

  3. To fold compactly.

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