0 to fall down suddenly because of pressure or having no strength or support: --
1 (of people and business) to suddenly be unable to continue or work correctly: --
2 the sudden failure of a system, organization, business, etc.: --
3 the sudden falling movement of a person or structure that has become too weak to stand: --
the collapse of a building during the earthquake
5 to be unable to continue or to stay in operation; fail: --
Talks between management and unions collapsed today.
The axial velocity profiles of the other cases may be similarly collapsed.
When the safe zone collapsed in the next phase of the war, they confronted this dilemma directly by temporarily withdrawing their protection of civilians.
In the limit, without any counteracting mechanism, these fluctuations may become so extreme that output collapses.
If cor tisol-behavior associations are tested using variance collapsed across these sources, the ability to detect an effect may be compromised.
Huge sections of the outer walls had collapsed and other parts were in very poor shape.
The rebellion and its attempts to establish social harmony collapses.
The lid had collapsed on to the remains, the sides had fallen outwards, but the two end pieces remained upright.
Clearly that justification collapsed once it became clear that shareholders in large public companies no longer exercised any real control or responsibility over their property.
