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STRANGE ATTRACTOR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does strange attractor mean? 

STRANGE ATTRACTOR (noun)
  The noun STRANGE ATTRACTOR has 1 sense:

1. an attractor for which the approach to its final point in phase space is chaoticplay

  Familiarity information: STRANGE ATTRACTOR used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STRANGE ATTRACTOR (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An attractor for which the approach to its final point in phase space is chaotic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

chaotic attractor; strange attractor

Hypernyms ("strange attractor" is a kind of...):

attracter; attractor ((physics) a point in the ideal multidimensional phase space that is used to describe a system toward which the system tends to evolve regardless of the starting conditions of the system)


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