strange attractor

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

   Synonymschaotic attractor

   Broaderattractor

Questions about strange attractor

What does strange attractor mean?

strange attractor means "an attractor for which the approach to its final point in phase space is chaotic".

What is another word for strange attractor?

Close synonyms include chaotic attractor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is strange attractor a common word?

strange attractor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.