damage

Changes to a system that adversely affect its current or future performance

Also known as harm

Instance of: general term
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1.Stated in Integrated Authority FileRetrieved 2025-02-10
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Subclass of: process
, occurrence
, reduction

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Damage is any change in a thing, often a physical object, that degrades it away from its initial state. It can broadly be defined as "changes introduced into a system that adversely affect its current or future performance". Damage "does not necessarily imply total loss of system functionality, but rather that the system is no longer operating in its optimal manner". Damage to physical objects is "the progressive physical process by which they break" and includes mechanical stress that weakens a structure, even if this is not visible. Efforts undertaken to prevent or ameliorate damage are often referred to as "damage control".

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Different from: Schaden criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: Schaden
Damage criterion used: descriptive page and disambiguation page have to be in different items · applies to name of subject: damage
Main Wikidata property: damaged
Opposite of: improvement
Partially coincident with: loss
harm
destruction
Q16631175
Cause: risk
Said to be the same as: disadvantage

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