Collapse or its variants may refer to:

Concepts

Collapse (structural) Structural integrity and failure is an aspect of engineering that deals with the ability of a structure to support a designed structural load (weight, force, etc.) without breaking and includes the study of past structural failures in order to ...

Collapse (topology) In topology, a branch of mathematics, a collapse reduces a simplicial complex (or more generally, a CW complex) to a homotopy-equivalent subcomplex. Collapses, like CW complexes themselves, were invented by J. H. C. Whitehead. Collapses find app ...

, a mathematical concept * Collapsing manifold * Collapse, the action of collapsing or telescoping objects * Collapsing user interface elements ** Accordion (GUI) -- collapsing list items **

Code folding Code or text folding, or less commonly holophrasting, is a feature of some graphical user interfaces that allows the user to selectively hide ("fold") or display ("unfold") parts of a document. This allows the user to manage large amounts of text ...

-- collapsing subsections of programs or text **

Outliner An outliner (or outline processor) is a specialized type of text editor (word processor) used to create and edit Outline (list), outlines, which are text files which have a tree structure or a tree view, for organization. Textual information is co ...

-- supporting folding and unfolding subsections *

Ecosystem collapse An ecosystem, short for ecological system, is defined as a collection of interacting organisms within a biophysical environment. Ecosystems are never static, and are continually subject to both stabilizing and destabilizing processes. Stabilizing ...

Ecological collapse An ecosystem, short for ecological systems theory, system, is defined as a collection of interacting Organism, organisms within a biophysical environment. Ecosystems are never static, and are continually subject to both stabilizing and destabiliz ...

Economic collapse Economic collapse, also called economic meltdown, is any of a broad range of poor economic conditions, ranging from a severe, prolonged depression with high bankruptcy rates and high unemployment (such as the Great Depression of the 1930s), t ...

Gravitational collapse Gravitational collapse is the contraction of an astronomical object due to the influence of its own gravity, which tends to draw matter inward toward the center of gravity. Gravitational collapse is a fundamental mechanism for structure formati ...

creating astronomical objects *

Societal collapse Societal collapse (also known as civilizational collapse or systems collapse) is the fall of a complex human society characterized by the loss of cultural identity and of social complexity as an Complex adaptive system, adaptive system, the downf ...

Dissolution of the Soviet Union The Soviet Union was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration No. 142-N of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. Declaration No. 142-Н of ...

, the collapse of Soviet federalism **

State collapse State collapse is a sudden dissolution of a sovereign state. It is often used to describe extreme situations in which state institutions dissolve rapidly. When a new regime moves in, often led by the military, civil society typically fails to ...

* Wave function collapse, in physics

Medicine and biology

In medicine, collapse can refer to various forms of transient loss of consciousness such as syncope, or loss of postural

muscle tone In physiology, medicine, and anatomy, muscle tone (residual muscle tension or tonus) is the continuous and passive partial contraction of the muscles, or the muscle's resistance to passive stretch during resting state.O’Sullivan, S. B. (2007) ...

without loss of

consciousness Consciousness, at its simplest, is awareness of a state or object, either internal to oneself or in one's external environment. However, its nature has led to millennia of analyses, explanations, and debate among philosophers, scientists, an ...

. It can also refer to: *

Circulatory collapse Shock is the state of insufficient blood flow to the tissues of the body as a result of problems with the circulatory system. Initial symptoms of shock may include weakness, tachycardia, hyperventilation, sweating, anxiety, and increased thirst. ...

* Lung collapse * Hydrophobic collapse in

protein folding Protein folding is the physical process by which a protein, after Protein biosynthesis, synthesis by a ribosome as a linear chain of Amino acid, amino acids, changes from an unstable random coil into a more ordered protein tertiary structure, t ...

Art, entertainment and media

Literature

* '' Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed'', a book by Jared Diamond * ''Collapse'' (journal), a journal of philosophical research and development published in the United Kingdom

Film

* ''Collapse'' (film), a 2009 documentary directed by Chris Smith and starring Michael Ruppert * ''Collapse'', a 2010 documentary film based on the book '' Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed''

Games

* ''Collapse'' (2008 video game), an action game released in 2008 for Microsoft Windows * ''

Collapse! ''Collapse!'' is a series of tile-matching video games by Seattle-based GameHouse. In 2007, ''Super Collapse! 3'' became the first game to win the Game of the Year at the inaugural Gamezebo#The Zeebys, Zeebys. The series has been discontinued si ...

'', a 1999 series games created by GameHouse * Collapse, a fictional event in the computer game ''Dreamfall'' * The Collapse (''Deus Ex''), a fictional event within the plot of the computer game ''Deus Ex'' and its sequel ''Deus Ex: Invisible War''

Music

Albums

* ''Collapse'' (Across Five Aprils album), 2006 * ''Collapse'' (Deas Vail album), 2006 * '' Collapse EP'', 2018 record by Aphex Twin

Songs

* "Collapse" (Soul Coughing song), 1996 * "Collapse" (Saosin song), 2006 * "Collapse" (Imperative Reaction song), 2006 * "Collapsed" (Aly & AJ song), 2005