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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Attractor may refer to: Attractor , a feature of some dynamic systems Great Attractor , a gravity anomaly in intergalactic space Fishing light attractor , a fishing aid Bug attractor , in insect eradication Software attractor , an animation or content that ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Attractor \At*tract"or\ ([a^]t*tr[a^]kt"[~e]r), n. One who, or that which, attracts. --Sir T. Browne

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context mathematics physics English) A set of points or states to which a dynamical system evolves after a long enough time. That is, points that get close enough to the attractor remain close even if slightly disturbed.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. an entertainer who attracts large audiences; "he was the biggest drawing card they had" [syn: drawing card , draw , attraction , attracter ] (physics) a point in the ideal multidimensional phase space that is used to describe a system toward which the ...

Usage examples of attractor.

At that point neither the attractor or the antinode were up and running, so we were all targets.

Epilogue The networks of mass attractors that tethered the Extractor to Planet Pluto disengaged nine Earth centuries after construction began.

Those Nighters were using a fish-eye attractor as bait in their crab traps!

Tranto, glowing with the energy of the strange attractors he had consumed, was enthusiastic about shoving the piles of broken building materials from side to side, heaping marble on cinder block, plaster on preformed plastics.

The complexity is quantified by a number called the dimension of the strange attractor, which is a natural generalization of the ordinary concept of dimension.

Who knows, perhaps telos, perhaps Eros, moves the entire Kosmos, and God may indeed be an all-embracing chaotic Attractor, acting, as Whitehead said, throughout the world by gentle persuasion toward love.

Who knows, perhaps telos, perhaps Eros, moves the entire Kosmos, and God may indeed be an all-embracing chaotic Attractor, acting, as Whitehead said, throughout the world by gentle persuasion toward love.

The permanent floating meatspace party Manfred is hooking up with is a strange attractor for some of the American exiles cluttering up the cities of Europe this decade not trustafarians, but honest-to-God political dissidents, draft dodgers, and terminal outsourcing victims.

Nobel Laureate if the probabilities collapsed properly onto their just attractor, peered owlishly at Dexter with the sweet bashful hopefulness of every teenage wannabee sf writer who had ever babbled his creative heart out to him at a con suite party or across an autograph session table.

Chaotic attractors are complex and subtly ordered structures that constrain the behavior of seemingly random and unpredictable systems.

When the system achieves a new state of dynamic stability, the chaotic attractors of the bifurcation epoch give way to a new set of point or periodic attractors.

And the evolution of that Western mind was not an alienating move away from the Answer, but a series of profound (and heroic and painful) steps heading toward that Answer, the Chaotic Attractor as a future potential that was the Source and the Goal of the entire display, a future potential that became actual in any individual who stepped off the display and into the Abyss, from which the individual was reborn, not from the womb, but from Emptiness itselfand as the entire Kosmos.

Before you begin your run into Deep Fields have it carry you to the grove where strange attractors grow.

Tranto commented from where he stood on the flat bed, munching strange attractors.

The monkey had forborne from eating the strange attractors and nibbled now on a banana.