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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
chaotic
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
behavior
▪ Using enzyme concentration as the bifurcation parameter it was possible to induce reversible transitions between periodic and chaotic behavior.
▪ Experimental literature that explicitly suggests that chaotic behavior has been observed in neural systems not subject to periodic stimulation is more limited.
▪ It is possible to speculate that this system might enter a region of chaotic behavior in vivo.
▪ Thus, if the second-messenger network were to enter a domain of chaotic behavior, chaotic variation in membrane potential would result.
▪ Specifically, can chaotic behavior result in a single-loop feedback system with a nonmonotonic nonlinearity?
▪ Theoretical arguments also indicate that multicellular neural systems can enter domains of chaotic behavior.
▪ They found evidence for chaotic behavior.
behaviour
▪ Secondly the standard routes to chaos imply the existence of a well-defined onset of chaotic behaviour.
▪ These are the terms that are considered to induce chaotic behaviour in these cosmological models.
▪ We have noted that chaotic behaviour can arise only for systems governed by non-linear equations.
▪ Then chaotic behaviour recurs, with the phase space trajectories being initially confined to bands and subsequently filling a whole region.
▪ An important aspect of such chaotic behaviour is sensitivity to initial conditions.
▪ The existence of expanding and contracting directions is an essential prerequisite for chaotic behaviour in dissipative systems of this sort.
situation
▪ Mere words could do little in the short term to reverse the chaotic situation.
▪ The chaotic situation gave an opening for the military coup.
▪ Some observers feared a chaotic situation that could deprive the eventual winner of the legitimacy needed to govern.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Newscasts continued to broadcast images of the chaotic minutes after the shooting.
▪ The chaotic social and economic conditions could lead to civil war.
▪ The city is a sprawling chaotic metropolis of some eight million residents.
▪ We flew on the day after Christmas and the situation at the airport was completely chaotic.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dawn saw the north wind still blowing strongly, and a chaotic sea right to the horizon.
▪ Lord Owen condemned the voting as chaotic.
▪ One can contemplate at least three roles for these chaotic regimes.
▪ So the chaotic sea has an ambivalent character as well, like the sea, its visible expression.
▪ Some observers feared a chaotic situation that could deprive the eventual winner of the legitimacy needed to govern.
▪ The only defence open to enterprises and manufacturing industry would be a chaotic cut in their demand for these raw materials.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chaotic

Chaotic \Cha*ot"ic\ (k[asl]*[o^]t"[i^]k), a. Resembling chaos; confused.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chaotic

1713, "in a state of primordial chaos," irregularly formed in English from chaos + -ic, probably on model of eros/erotic, demos/demotic, hypnos/hypnotic, etc. Transferred or figurative meaning "confused, disordered" is from 1747.

Wiktionary
chaotic

a. 1 Filled with chaos. 2 Extremely disorganized or in disarray. 3 (context mathematics English) Highly sensitive to starting conditions, so that a small change to them may yield a very different outcome. 4 (context role-playing games English) Aligned against following/upholding laws and principles- the opposite of lawful. alt. 1 Filled with chaos. 2 Extremely disorganized or in disarray. 3 (context mathematics English) Highly sensitive to starting conditions, so that a small change to them may yield a very different outcome. 4 (context role-playing games English) Aligned against following/upholding laws and principles- the opposite of lawful.

WordNet
chaotic
  1. adj. lacking a visible order or organization [syn: helter-skelter]

  2. completely unordered and unpredictable and confusing [syn: disorderly]

  3. of or relating to a sensitive dependence on initial conditions

Wikipedia
Chaotic (novella)

Chaotic, part of the Women of the Otherworld series, is a novella written by Kelley Armstrong. It was published in an anthology of supernatural-themed novellas, called "Dates From Hell." This novella takes place between Haunted and Broken in the Women of the Otherworld series.

Chaotic (TV series)

Chaotic is an American animated fantasy television series produced by 4Kids Entertainment and animated by Bardel Entertainment. It is based on the Danish trading card game of the same name. Much of the plot is based on the original storyline of the Danish trading card game.

Chaotic (disambiguation)

Chaotic may refer to:

  • a state or phenomenon characterized by chaos
    • Chaos theory
  • Chaotic, a trading card game / TV series franchise
    • Chaotic Trading Card Game
    • Chaotic (TV series), an animated TV series
  • Britney and Kevin: Chaotic, a short-lived reality TV series starring Britney Spears and Kevin Federline
    • Britney & Kevin: Chaotic (EP), an EP from the series including the series title song "Chaotic"
  • Chaotic (novella), a novella by Kelley Armstrong
Chaotic

Chaotic was originally a Danish trading card game. It expanded to an online game in America which then became a television program based on the game. The program was able to be seen on 4Kids TV (Fox affiliates, nationwide), Jetix, The CW4Kids, Cartoon Network and Disney XD. It was brought over to the United States from Denmark by Bryan C. Gannon and Chaotic USA Entertainment Group, and produced by Chaotic USA Entertainment Group, 4Kids Productions and Bardel Entertainment. The trading card game came out September 6, 2006 in the U.S. and Canada.

Each card comes with a unique code which the owner can upload onto the Chaotic website. This allows the owner to trade and play on-line using his/her own card collection. The game was well known to be the only game with a TV show, an online game, and a TCG that were all integrated. However, the online game is currently closed.

Usage examples of "chaotic".

Elwyn might not hurt him deliberately, but it was at least even money that she would drop him, or forget him in some inconvenient place, or absentmindedly lead him into a Chaotic Zone if she could find one.

It trailed its tongue in the air and found food, swept with chaotic aerobatics into the shadow of the bricks.

Taliban movement, espousing a ruthless version of Islamic law, perhaps could bring order in chaotic Afghanistan and make it a cooperative ally.

One thing, however, remains constant: these card creatures are just as ornery, just as irrational and chaotic as the other Wonderland inhabitants Alice has already encountered.

Out of a potentially chaotic mix of increasing greenhouse gases, an unstable hydrologic cycle, and novel biogeochemical feedback loops, Mars was discovering its own equilibrium.

It wove its way through the narrow, crowded streets of Cholon and then across the river into the equally chaotic streets of downtown Saigon.

The most hilarious aspect is that they all spoke exactly like Hugh, so despite the chaotic neural effects they must have been using his brain pattern as some kind of general Chomskyan grammatical template for English.

I found that Dominick was more and more constantly on my mind, and I discovered that, contrary to our chaotic and negative endnote, my thoughts of him were quite pleasant.

They can take a chaotic soup of free aminos and arrange them, from out of a staggering number of linear permutations, into a sequence that gives them enzymatic sense.

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.

It helped him solidify the terrible, chaotic formlessness of this level.

For a moment there was chaotic slaughter as Madrassi sepoys chased Goanese gunners around limbers and guns, but Wallace was already looking ahead and could see this.

For some reason it all seemed quieter in the dark, though just as jouncy and chaotic.

Then the trajectory of the bike trued and he hit the window square on, the glass bursting upward as he broke through, the front wheel, then the back, landing on a grassy knoll, slipping, the bike almost skidding into a cypress tree, then the rear tire gripping and, as he kicked down the accelerator, the Kawasaki speeding off through the park, into the busy street, between the lines of traffic, far from Jochi, left in his dust in the middle of the chaotic gym.

A few oil lamps and a hair of ugly purple candies threw their paltry light over the shapeless, afghan-strewn furniture, the chaotic, knickknacky shelves.