What (who) is chaos - definition
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chaos
n.
1.
Primeval matter, primordial confusion.
2.
Disorder, confusion.
chaos
<mathematics> A property of some non-linear dynamic systems
which exhibit sensitive dependence on initial conditions.
This means that there are initial states which evolve within
some finite time to states whose separation in one or more
dimensions of state space depends, in an average sense,
exponentially on their initial separation.
Such systems may still be completely deterministic in that
any future state of the system depends only on the initial
conditions and the equations describing the change of the
system with time. It may, however, require arbitrarily high
precision to actually calculate a future state to within some
finite precision.
["On defining chaos", R. Glynn Holt
<rgholt@voyager.jpl.nasa.gov> and D. Lynn Holt
<lholt@seraph1.sewanee.edu>.
ftp://mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/pub/etext/ippe/preprints/Phil_of_Science/Holt_and_Holt.On_Defining_Chaos]
Fixed precision floating-point arithmetic, as used by most
computers, may actually introduce chaotic dependence on
initial conditions due to the accumulation of rounding errors
(which constitutes a non-linear system).
(1995-02-07)
chaos
n.
1) to cause, create chaos
2) complete, total, utter chaos
3) economic; political chaos
4) chaos ensues, results
5) a state of chaos
Pronunciation examples for chaos
1. and chaos with chaos.
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2. Cha.
The Search for a Nonviolent Future _ Michael Nagler _ Talks at Google
3. and from the cha-cha-cha, from the bolero,
Un DÃa Cualquiera - A Musical Journey from Cuba to America _ Harold Lopez Nussa _ Talks at Google
4. SHAAN: Yeah, it's too many cha-cha-cha-cha and too many--
The Romance of Bollywood Music _ Shaan _ Talks at Google
5. you will get chaos, complete chaos.
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Examples of use of chaos
1. Chaos turned to farce Chaos then turned to farce.
2. "That could lead to chaos, and chaos to civil war," al–Hashimi said.
3. Chaos The NAO reveals a series of examples of the chaos bedevilling the system.
4. "It has been chaos here all day, just total chaos," said our taxi–driver.
5. That in my view would be a recipe for chaos, social chaos.