strange attractor

American  

noun

1. Physics. a stable, nonperiodic state or behavior exhibited by some dynamic systems, especially turbulent ones, that can be represented as a nonrepeating pattern in the system's phase space.

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strange attractor British  

noun

1. maths a type of chaotic dynamical system

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strange attractor Scientific  

/ strānj /

1. See under attractor

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Example Sentences

While the chaotic forces of no deal whirl ever faster, his bland shrug of the shoulder becomes the “strange attractor” around which they mysteriously cohere.

From The Guardian

There’s still no definitive count of how many enemy combatants died during the war, even though that number was the strange attractor for every other metric.

From Forbes

Address scarcity contributes to be a strange attractor that deformed the logic of the Internet at scale and helped guarantee the cloud would become the primary architecture.

From Forbes