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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▸ 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.
Similar:
threshold effect,
stable equilibrium,
unstable equilibrium,
criticality,
bumblebee model,
overstability,
perturbation,
Bernoulli effect,
perturbation theory,
period doubling,
more...
Opposite:
Types:
chaos theory,
Lorenz attractor,
bifurcation,
strange attractor,
fractals,
self-organization,
nonlinearity,
more...
Phrases:
Adjectives:
rotatory,
overlapping,
interpenetrative,
alternate,
aliquoted,
parted,
interspersed,
sublinear,
partitive,
multipartition,
alternant
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