chaotic
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7.2
- adjective
- /keɪˈɑːtɪk/
- Specialized
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caótico
- I think the Earth is regular, but Pluto has chaotic motion, so it does crazy stuff, right?
- chaotic systems
- chaotic motion
- chaotic phenomena
Cantor Cantor's construction actually was much, much simpler than these chaotic equations.
- Cantor Cantor's construction actually was much, much simpler than these chaotic equations.
- It's not the orbit that's chaotic, it's the orientation of the moon on that orbit.
- Can you prevent the double pendulum from being chaotic?
- And those have a a wave equation too, that's much more chaotic.
- Which means that you just can't draw a chaotic, chaotic trajectory because you're going to have to cross yourself again.
- The ones that we see are usually more or less pull on, but there's still enough chaotic velocity around the black hole to broaden the lines.
- And, you know, Gerald Sussman actually built a machine to do that, but it's because it's chaotic.
Examples
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So the overarching idea with regard to chaos theory is that chaotic systems are not predictable.
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What's interesting here is that the market appears chaotic, but it's actually quite structured because it's a fractal.
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This one is another simple yet chaotic system.
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The universe is chaotic and you make us see it.
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I was this tiny little human in a really chaotic system that was trying to figure out a lot of things.
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Science is the quest for truth in a chaotic universe.
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The crucial characteristic of chaotic systems is that they change unpredictably.
Fiction book (1995) -
When your brain, when things are chaotic, you can't predict what's going to happen next.
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We predict their future importance in the chaotic conditions unfolding in the twenty-first century.
Academic text (2008) -
The stock market can appear chaotic, with prices changing rapidly and unpredictably.
Synonyms
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4.4
Likely to change suddenly and hard to know in advance
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6.1
Not regular or predictable and likely to change suddenly
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7.0
Likely to change suddenly and become more dangerous
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6.6
Full of confusion and disorder among people, politics, or events
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8.8
Showing growing disorder and things that are hard to predict
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9.9
Not reliable and hard to control, often causing failures
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
A complex pattern a system settles into that never repeats so small changes give very different results
How Chaotic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Chaotic comes from the Greek root chaos, originally meaning a 'great empty space' where movement was free and unpredictable. That image helps explain the scientific use: a chaotic system is one that is very sensitive to small changes and therefore hard to predict.