Usually means: Failure of structure or system.
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  1. collapse: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. collapse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. collapse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. collapse: Collins English Dictionary
  5. collapse: Vocabulary.com
  6. Collapse, collapse: Wordnik
  7. collapse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. collapse: Wiktionary
  9. collapse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. collapse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. collapse: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. collapse: Dictionary.com
  13. collapse: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. collapse: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Collapse (Across Five Aprils album), Collapse (EP), Collapse (book), Collapse (disambiguation), Collapse (film), Collapse (journal), Collapse (medical), Collapse (structural), Collapse (topology), Collapse (video game), Collapse, Collapse: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Collapse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. collapse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. collapse: Rhymezone
  19. collapse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. collapse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. COLLAPSE: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. Collapse: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. collapse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. collapse: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. collapse: Free Dictionary

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  4. collapse: Legal dictionary
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Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. collapse: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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  3. collapse: Medical dictionary

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  1. collapse: Idioms

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  1. Collapse (Game), Collapse: Urban Dictionary

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(Note: See collapsed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To break apart and fall down suddenly; to cave in.
verb:  (intransitive) To cease to function due to a sudden breakdown; to fail suddenly and completely.
verb:  (intransitive) To fold compactly.
verb:  (transitive, computing) 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.
verb:  (cricket) For several batsmen to get out in quick succession
verb:  (transitive) To cause something to collapse.
verb:  (intransitive) To pass out and fall to the floor or ground, as from exhaustion or other illness; to faint.
noun:  The act of collapsing.
noun:  Constant function, one-valued function (in automata theory) (in particular application causing a reset).

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