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Definition of chaos in English: chaosnoun ˈkeɪɒsˈkeɪˌɑs mass noun1Complete disorder and confusion. snow caused chaos in the region Example sentencesExamples - His work seems to depict the confusion, guilt, uncertainty and chaos of modern life.
- In a situation of total economic chaos, only a small number of profiteers have something to gain.
- Department stores commonly have chaos and pandemonium on their floors, and this one was the same.
- Motorists in south Essex slipped and slithered to work today as the first snow of winter caused chaos on the roads.
- Road bosses are aiming to prevent a repeat of last winter's chaos when the region is plunged into deep freeze next week.
- Rail chaos hit commuters early yesterday morning with delays of up to 40 minutes.
- Resulting restrictions and traffic chaos will throw the entire area into turmoil for up to four hours.
- The stoppage will cripple services across this region, leading to chaos for passengers.
- When law and order break down in a country it must be the first step towards anarchy and chaos.
- Snow caused commuter chaos across the region today and closed both runways at Manchester Airport.
- Her desire to get what she wants throws her life into a chaos she may not be able to escape from.
- For the present it's a chaos of building and redevelopment projects spread out over a maze of roadworks.
- Violent thunderstorms and rain caused chaos on the region's roads and railways last night.
- However, in trying to create the ideal world for just the motorist for so long, it now creates chaos and havoc for everyone.
- They thrive on disruption and chaos, and seek to complicate any chance for a negotiated solution.
- That's the way to create the impression of confusion, panic and chaos.
- I am whisked through the doors to a chaos of people and boxes and props on the other side.
- The biggest risk from a dirty bomb is the chaos and confusion caused by mass panic.
- You find yourself at the brink of an important change that brings emotional chaos and confusion today.
- Council bosses have been urged to consider buying extra gritting vehicles after this week's snow chaos.
Synonyms disorder, disarray, disorganization, confusion, mayhem, bedlam, pandemonium, madness, havoc, turmoil, tumult, commotion, disruption, upheaval, furore, frenzy, uproar, hue and cry, babel, hurly-burly a maelstrom, a muddle, a mess, a shambles, a mare's nest anarchy, entropy, lawlessness West Indian bangarang informal hullabaloo, all hell broken loose, a madhouse British informal an omnishambles, a car crash North American informal a three-ring circus - 1.1Physics The property of a complex system whose behaviour is so unpredictable as to appear random, owing to great sensitivity to small changes in conditions.
Example sentencesExamples - The phenomenon of chaos is still not completely understood and mathematicians work on it even today.
- Interestingly, this view is increasingly embraced by theories of dynamical systems and chaos.
- The thing about strange attractors is that they bring their own kind of beautiful order to chaos, but it is still chaos.
- A great example of a nonlinear system exhibiting chaos is all around you: the weather.
- By these means, the study of chaos and complexity has become a subculture within science.
- 1.2 The formless matter supposed to have existed before the creation of the universe.
Example sentencesExamples - There is, however, the universal law that brings about order out of chaos and creates harmony.
- Creation stories describe in various ways the essential struggle between chaos and form.
- They had known each other since the advent of the chaos that existed before time gave its birth cry.
- We just happen, in this picture, to be in a Universe produced by a random fluctuation within the chaos.
- 1.3Greek Mythology The first created being, from which came the primeval deities Gaia, Tartarus, Erebus, and Nyx.
Example sentencesExamples - The ordered world of her childhood had been ripped apart and she stood on the edge the Abyss and stared into the face of Chaos.
- The greater threat is known to the Humans and is humanity's nemesis called Chaos.
- In Greek mythology, Chaos is the goddess of emptiness and confusion who gave birth to the Universe.
Origin Late 15th century (denoting a gaping void or chasm, later formless primordial matter): via French and Latin from Greek khaos 'vast chasm, void'. A chaos from Greek khaos was originally ‘a gaping void, chasm’. The word later came to refer to the formless matter out of which the universe was thought to have been formed, from which developed the current meaning, ‘utter confusion and disorder’—first used by Shakespeare in Troilus and Cressida. See also gas. In the 1980s scientists pondered the notion that a butterfly fluttering its wings in Rio de Janeiro could start a chain of events that would eventually change the weather in Chicago. They dubbed this the butterfly effect. It is a central idea of chaos theory, a branch of mathematics that deals with complex systems whose behaviour is highly sensitive to slight changes in conditions.
Definition of chaos in US English: chaosnounˈkāˌäsˈkeɪˌɑs 1Complete disorder and confusion. snow caused chaos in the region Example sentencesExamples - Violent thunderstorms and rain caused chaos on the region's roads and railways last night.
- Department stores commonly have chaos and pandemonium on their floors, and this one was the same.
- His work seems to depict the confusion, guilt, uncertainty and chaos of modern life.
- Her desire to get what she wants throws her life into a chaos she may not be able to escape from.
- Road bosses are aiming to prevent a repeat of last winter's chaos when the region is plunged into deep freeze next week.
- I am whisked through the doors to a chaos of people and boxes and props on the other side.
- They thrive on disruption and chaos, and seek to complicate any chance for a negotiated solution.
- However, in trying to create the ideal world for just the motorist for so long, it now creates chaos and havoc for everyone.
- The biggest risk from a dirty bomb is the chaos and confusion caused by mass panic.
- In a situation of total economic chaos, only a small number of profiteers have something to gain.
- Council bosses have been urged to consider buying extra gritting vehicles after this week's snow chaos.
- Resulting restrictions and traffic chaos will throw the entire area into turmoil for up to four hours.
- For the present it's a chaos of building and redevelopment projects spread out over a maze of roadworks.
- The stoppage will cripple services across this region, leading to chaos for passengers.
- That's the way to create the impression of confusion, panic and chaos.
- Motorists in south Essex slipped and slithered to work today as the first snow of winter caused chaos on the roads.
- Snow caused commuter chaos across the region today and closed both runways at Manchester Airport.
- When law and order break down in a country it must be the first step towards anarchy and chaos.
- Rail chaos hit commuters early yesterday morning with delays of up to 40 minutes.
- You find yourself at the brink of an important change that brings emotional chaos and confusion today.
Synonyms disorder, disarray, disorganization, confusion, mayhem, bedlam, pandemonium, madness, havoc, turmoil, tumult, commotion, disruption, upheaval, furore, frenzy, uproar, hue and cry, babel, hurly-burly - 1.1Physics Behavior so unpredictable as to appear random, owing to great sensitivity to small changes in conditions.
Example sentencesExamples - Interestingly, this view is increasingly embraced by theories of dynamical systems and chaos.
- A great example of a nonlinear system exhibiting chaos is all around you: the weather.
- The phenomenon of chaos is still not completely understood and mathematicians work on it even today.
- The thing about strange attractors is that they bring their own kind of beautiful order to chaos, but it is still chaos.
- By these means, the study of chaos and complexity has become a subculture within science.
- 1.2 The formless matter supposed to have existed before the creation of the universe.
Example sentencesExamples - We just happen, in this picture, to be in a Universe produced by a random fluctuation within the chaos.
- There is, however, the universal law that brings about order out of chaos and creates harmony.
- Creation stories describe in various ways the essential struggle between chaos and form.
- They had known each other since the advent of the chaos that existed before time gave its birth cry.
- 1.3Greek Mythology The first created being, from which came the primeval deities Gaia, Tartarus, Erebus, and Nyx.
Example sentencesExamples - The ordered world of her childhood had been ripped apart and she stood on the edge the Abyss and stared into the face of Chaos.
- The greater threat is known to the Humans and is humanity's nemesis called Chaos.
- In Greek mythology, Chaos is the goddess of emptiness and confusion who gave birth to the Universe.
Origin Late 15th century (denoting a gaping void or chasm, later formless primordial matter): via French and Latin from Greek khaos ‘vast chasm, void’. |