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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A disaster or serious difficulty produced by a chance combination of factors.
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- noun meteorology, informal A
powerful hurricane or other majorweather disturbance , especially as produced by acombination ofmeteorological conditions. - noun figuratively, by extension A situation where a
calamity is caused by theconvergence andamplifying interaction of a number of factors.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After The Perfect Storm, book by Sebastian Junger, which recounts the sinking of a fishing boat in a particularly violent storm.]
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