Definizione monolingua

chaos

chaos (usually uncountable; plural chaoses)

1. (obsolete) A vast chasm or abyss.
2. The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony
3. Any state of disorder, any confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.
   • 1977, Irwin Edman, Adam, the Baby, and the Man from Mars?, page 54:

     or out of these chaoses order may be made, out of this ferment a clear wine of life. There are chaoses that have gone too far for retrieval

4. (obsolete, rare) A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.ii.3:

     What is the centre of the earth? is it pure element only, as Aristotle decrees, inhabited (as Paracelsus thinks) with creatures whose chaos is the earth: or with fairies, as the woods and waters (according to him) are with nymphs, or as the air with spirits?

5. (mathematics) Behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
6. (fantasy) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.

Definizione dizionario chaos

	caos
	state of disorder
	A state of utter confusion or disorder.

baraonda

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chaos

confusione

disordine

scompiglio

viluppo

Altri significati:

in classical cosmogony

(obsolete) A vast chasm or abyss.

(obsolete, rare) A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.

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

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

mathematics

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

The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony