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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 hasnon-integer dimension or whose dynamics on it arechaotic .
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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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