noun. A condition or place of great disorder or confusion.

noun. A disorderly mass; a jumble.

noun. The disordered state of unformed matter and infinite space supposed in some cosmogonic views to have existed before the ordered universe.

noun. Chaos theory.

noun. A dynamical system that has a sensitive dependence on its initial conditions.

noun. An abyss; a chasm.

noun. A vacant space or chasm; empty, immeasurable space.

noun. The confused or formless elementary state, not fully existing, in which the universe is supposed to have been latent before the order, uniformities, or laws of nature had been developed or created: the opposite of cosmos.

noun. A confused mixture of parts or elements; confusion; disorder.

noun. In the language of the alchemists, the atmosphere: first so used by Paracelsus.

noun. [capitalized] The void of unformed matter personified and deemed by some among the Greeks as the oldest of the gods.

noun. An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm.

noun. The confused, unorganized condition or mass of matter before the creation of distinct and orderly forms.

noun. Any confused or disordered collection or state of things; a confused mixture; confusion; disorder.

noun. A vast chasm or abyss.

noun. The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony

noun. Any state of disorder, any confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.

noun. A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.

noun. Behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.

noun. One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.

noun. (Greek mythology) the most ancient of gods; the personification of the infinity of space preceding creation of the universe

noun. the formless and disordered state of matter before the creation of the cosmos

noun. a state of extreme confusion and disorder

noun. (physics) a dynamical system that is extremely sensitive to its initial conditions

"Some of the early investigators of chaos were the American physicist Mitchell Feigenbaum; the Polish-born mathematician and inventor of fractals see fractal geometry Benoit Mandelbrot; the American mathematician James Yorke, who popularized the term “chaos”; and the American meteorologist Edward Lorenz."

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