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

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