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chaos theory

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noun

  1. a theory, applied in various branches of science, that apparently random phenomena have underlying order

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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They are great to watch because you just don't know what to happen, it is just chaos theory.

From BBC Dec. 6, 2024

To this end, the research team employed a cross-disciplinary approach by combining chaos theory and synchronization theory.

From Science Daily Jan. 4, 2024

A new staging presented by Bedlam makes a valiant effort to adapt Stoppard’s cerebral probes into chaos theory, Newtonian law, thermodynamics and metaphysics for a 2023 audience, but the result is a muddled one.

From New York Times Nov. 17, 2023

The field of mathematics called chaos theory, which deals with extremely complex, dynamic systems like the movements of liquids or gasses, has a concept called "strange attractors."

From Salon Apr. 24, 2020

Dad had become interested in chaos theory and was reading Los Alamos Science and the Journal of Statistical Physics.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

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