"error catastrophe" meaning in All languages combined

See error catastrophe on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: error catastrophes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} error catastrophe (plural error catastrophes)
  1. (biology) The extinction of an organism (usually microorganisms) due to excessive RNA mutations. Wikipedia link: error catastrophe Categories (topical): Biology
    Sense id: en-error_catastrophe-en-noun-paKEJGOe Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: biology, natural-sciences

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for error catastrophe meaning in All languages combined (1.0kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "error catastrophes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "error catastrophe (plural error catastrophes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Biology",
          "orig": "en:Biology",
          "parents": [
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The extinction of an organism (usually microorganisms) due to excessive RNA mutations."
      ],
      "id": "en-error_catastrophe-en-noun-paKEJGOe",
      "links": [
        [
          "biology",
          "biology"
        ],
        [
          "organism",
          "organism"
        ],
        [
          "microorganisms",
          "microorganism"
        ],
        [
          "RNA",
          "RNA"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biology) The extinction of an organism (usually microorganisms) due to excessive RNA mutations."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "error catastrophe"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "error catastrophe"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "error catastrophes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "error catastrophe (plural error catastrophes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Biology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The extinction of an organism (usually microorganisms) due to excessive RNA mutations."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "biology",
          "biology"
        ],
        [
          "organism",
          "organism"
        ],
        [
          "microorganisms",
          "microorganism"
        ],
        [
          "RNA",
          "RNA"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(biology) The extinction of an organism (usually microorganisms) due to excessive RNA mutations."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "biology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "error catastrophe"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "error catastrophe"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.