Disaster
nounid
2338·updated May 12, 2026candidate
1. A sudden, unplanned calamitous event causing great damage or loss. Any event that creates an inability on an enterprise's part to provide critical business functions for some predetermined period of time. Similar terms are business interruption, outage and catastrophe. 2. The period when enterprise management decides to divert from normal production responses and exercises its disaster recovery plan (DRP). It typically signifies the beginning of a move from a primary location to an alternate location.
polysemous
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Classifications
Entity Type
Event0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
Sensitivity
—78%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- calamitycataclysmcatastrophetragedy
- plural
- Disasters
- possessive
- Disaster's
- pluralpossessive
- Disasters'
Framework definitions
- §1
- 1. A sudden, unplanned calamitous event causing great damage or loss. Any event that creates an inability on an enterprise's part to provide critical business functions for some predetermined period of time. Similar terms are business interruption, outage and catastrophe. 2. The period when enterprise management decides to divert from normal production responses and exercises its disaster recovery plan (DRP). It typically signifies the beginning of a move from a primary location to an alternate location.
- §1
- an act that has disastrous consequences
- §2
- an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
- §3
- a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune
- §1 · legacy_primary
- 1. A sudden, unplanned calamitous event causing great damage or loss. Any event that creates an inability on an enterprise's part to provide critical business functions for some predetermined period of time. Similar terms are business interruption, outage and catastrophe. 2. The period when enterprise management decides to divert from normal production responses and exercises its disaster recovery plan (DRP). It typically signifies the beginning of a move from a primary location to an alternate location.DR-088 backfill from the noun definition column
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