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strange attractor

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An attractor exhibited by some dynamic systems for which the approach to the attractor is chaotic.

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  • noun mathematics An attractor that has non-integer dimension or whose dynamics on it are chaotic.

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  • noun an attractor for which the approach to its final point in phase space is chaotic

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The term was coined by David Ruelle and Floris Takens.

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