Translation for 'collapse' from English to Bulgarian
NOUN   a collapse | collapses
VERB   to collapse | collapsed | collapsed
collapsing | collapses
SYNO collapse | crash | flop | ...
to collapse {verb}рухвам [несв.]
to collapse {verb}сгромолясвам се [несв.]
collapse {noun}рухване {ср}
астрон.
gravitational collapse {noun}
гравитационен колапс {м}
ист.
collapse of the Soviet Union {noun}
разпадане {ср} на Съветския съюз
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Usage Examples English
  • All snow shelters eventually collapse or melt. Quinzhees can collapse from poor snow conditions, warm weather, blowing rain, construction problems (hitting a supporting wall), failure to let the snow sinter long enough, or from people climbing on them.
  • Joseph Tainter frames societal collapse in "The Collapse of Complex Societies" (1988), a seminal and founding work of the academic discipline on societal collapse.
  • The porch collapse featured in this episode is based on the true story of the 2003 Chicago balcony collapse.
  • They can also be designed with yield line theory, where an assumed collapse mechanism is analyzed to give an upper bound on the collapse load.
  • The Upper Bound Plastic Collapse Theorem states that an upper bound to the collapse loads can be obtained by postulating a collapse mechanism and computing the ratio of its plastic dissipation to the work done by the applied loads.

  • Officials initially stated that they believed the collapse occurred as a result of long-term excessive load on the bridge, culminating in the fracture of a rusted connection hinge.
  • One proposed mechanism for producing gamma-ray bursts is induced gravitational collapse, where a neutron star is triggered to collapse into a black hole by the core collapse of a close companion consisting of a stripped carbon-oxygen core.
  • The NIST investigation's conclusions do not support the "pancake theory" of collapse initiation, in which the collapse is begun by a progressive failure of the floor system.
  • The northern flank of Hualca Hualca underwent a large sector collapse between 1.36 and 0.61 million years ago, opening up a collapse amphitheatre This lake has left lacustrine deposits in the Colca Valley.
  • After an interior collapse, the risk of an exterior collapse, and therefore the need for a collapse zone, rises significantly.

  • The Knickerbocker Theatre collapse is tied with the Surfside condominium collapse in 2021 as the third-deadliest structural engineering failure in United States history, behind the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse in 1981 and the collapse of the Pemberton Mill in 1860.
  • The postulated period coincides with a global clustering of volcano collapse events; perhaps global warming occurring during this time when the last glacial maximum approached its end predisposed volcanoes to collapse.
  • southeast flanks resulted from sector collapses of the volcano.
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