Lexic.us

Definition of Attractor

1. Noun. An entertainer who attracts large audiences. "He was the biggest drawing card they had"

2. Noun. (physics) a point in the ideal multidimensional phase space that is used to describe a system toward which the system tends to evolve regardless of the starting conditions of the system.

3. Noun. A characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts. "Flowers are an attractor for bees"

Definition of Attractor

1. n. One who, or that which, attracts.

Definition of Attractor

1. Noun. (context: mathematics physics) 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. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Attractor

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Attractor

attracting attractingly attraction attraction sphere attractions attractive attractive(a) attractive feature attractive force attractive nuisance

attractive nuisances attractively attractiveness attractivenesses attractivity attractor (current term) attractors attracts attrahens attrahent

attrahents attrap attrapped attraps attrectation attrib attributable attributable fraction attributable risk attribute

Literary usage of Attractor

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Berkeley-Ames Conference on Nonlinear Problems in Control by Louis R. Hunt, Clyde Martin (1984)
"To circumvent this difficulty, we enlarge the class of subsets of pP under consideration. DEFINITION. Q is a quasi-attractor of f if Q is nonempty and if ..."

2. Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics by R. Dougherty, Edward R Dougherty (2005)
"The attractor family ofthe PBN is defined to be the union of all the ... Pant (a) shows the attractor cycles Au and Ai2 for a network function f1, ..."

3. Catalyzing Inquiry at the Interface of Computing And Biology by John C. Wooley, Herbert Lin (2005)
"Since the system is deterministic, the network then cycles repeatedly through a fixed cycle, called an attractor. Every possible system state either leads ..."

4. The Ancient Cathedral of Cornwall Historically Surveyed by John Whitaker (1804)
"... the very attractor to the lightning The parish thus distinguished by the name, thus revering the memory, and thus honouring the statue of that genuine ..."

5. What Disaster Response Management Can Learn from Chaos Theory: Conference edited by Gus A. Koehler (1997)
"An attractor is a graphical method chaos researchers use to determine how ... The attractor presents an image of all of the change in the data that work ..."

6. Turn of the Century: 2100 by Charlie Pedersen (2007)
"Strange attractor (See also Very Strange attractors) An attractor for which ... An attractor is a set to which the system evolves after a long enough time. ..."

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