Usually means: Small changes cause large outcomes.
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  1. butterfly effect: Merriam-Webster
  2. butterfly effect: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. butterfly effect: Collins English Dictionary
  4. butterfly effect: Vocabulary.com
  5. butterfly effect: Wiktionary
  6. butterfly effect: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. butterfly effect: Dictionary.com
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  9. butterfly effect: Rhymezone
  10. butterfly effect: FreeDictionary.org
  11. butterfly effect: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. butterfly effect: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. butterfly effect: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Butterfly Effect: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. Butterfly Effect: Extragalactic Astronomy

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  1. The Butterfly Effect, butterfly effect: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (butterfly effect)

noun:  The technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory.
noun:  (by extension, science fiction) The notion that small changes in the past via time travel can cause disproportionately large and unforeseeable consequences in the present.

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