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Noun: vis major  vis mey-ju(r)
  1. A natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events
    - act of God, force majeure, inevitable accident, unavoidable casualty

Type of: calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy

Encyclopedia: Vis major