# catastrophic failure

> a sudden and total failure that often leads to cascading systems failure, from which recovery is impossible

**Wikidata**: [Q5051574](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5051574)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catastrophic_failure)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/catastrophic-failure


## References

1. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)