strange attractor

American

noun

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.

strange attractor British

noun

maths a type of chaotic dynamical system

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strange attractor Scientific

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strange attractor

No one should engage with that chaotic noise and the strange attractor at its center.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2020

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 ● Jul. 25, 2014

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