// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did the collapse say? I'm falling apart.

Collapse or its variants may refer to:

Concepts

• Collapse (structural)
• Collapse (topology), a mathematical concept
• Collapsing manifold
• Collapse, the action of collapsing or telescoping objects
• Collapsing user interface elements
  • Accordion (GUI) -- collapsing list items
  • Code folding -- collapsing subsections of programs or text
  • Outliner -- supporting folding and unfolding subsections
• Ecosystem collapse or Ecological collapse
• Economic collapse
• Gravitational collapse creating astronomical objects
• Societal collapse
  • Dissolution of the Soviet Union, the collapse of Soviet federalism
  • State collapse
• 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 without loss of consciousness. It can also refer to:

• Circulatory collapse
• Lung collapse
• Hydrophobic collapse in protein folding

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!, 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

See also

• All pages with titles containing Collapse
• Cave-in, a kind of structural collapse
• Disintegrate (disambiguation)
• Fall (disambiguation)
• Telescoping (mechanics), the action of collapsing objects