strange attractor
- 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
- maths a type of chaotic dynamical system
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strange attractor
[strānj]
- See under attractor.
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