Chaos
['keɪɒs] or ['keɑs]
Definition
(noun.) (physics) a dynamical system that is extremely sensitive to its initial conditions.
(noun.) (Greek mythology) the most ancient of gods; the personification of the infinity of space preceding creation of the universe.
(noun.) the formless and disordered state of matter before the creation of the cosmos.
(noun.) a state of extreme confusion and disorder.
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Definition
(n.) An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm.
(n.) The confused, unorganized condition or mass of matter before the creation of distinct and orderly forms.
(n.) Any confused or disordered collection or state of things; a confused mixture; confusion; disorder.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Matter in a disorganized state, matter in confusion.[2]. Disorder, confusion.
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Definition
n. shapeless mass: disorder: the state of matter before it was reduced to order by the Creator.—adj. Chaot′ic confused.—adv. Chaot′ically.
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Examples
- And really, after a day or two of confusion worse confounded, it was delightful by degrees to invoke order from the chaos ourselves had made. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I felt as if, from the order of the systematic world, I had plunged into chaos, obscure, contrary, unintelligible. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- At any moment it might burst and leave him in chaos. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Why are not all organic beings blended together in an inextricable chaos? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Edison tried a dozen different plans before he brought anything like order out of that engine chaos. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Never was harmony more perfect than that between the chaos of her mind and the chaos of the world without. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The human intellect cannot rest till law gives form to the wild chaos of fact. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Supposing this old social state WERE broken and destroyed, then, out of the chaos, what then? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Whereas without him, as you see, she is a mere stray, a fluffy sporadic bit of chaos. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There is convincing proof of the existence of God in the very fact that Nature, even in chaos, cannot proceed otherwise than regula rly and according to law. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Seen near, it was a chaos--hollowhalf-consumed: an orb perished or perishing--half lava, half glow. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- All would have been chaos and ruin. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A splashing and a tramping; a hurrahing, uproaring, musket-volleying; the truest segment of Chaos seen in these latter Ages! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The first great capitalistic system developed and fell into chaos through its own inherent rottenness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And really, after a day or two of confusion worse confounded, it was delightful by degrees to invoke order from the chaos ourselves had made. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I felt as if, from the order of the systematic world, I had plunged into chaos, obscure, contrary, unintelligible. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- At any moment it might burst and leave him in chaos. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Why are not all organic beings blended together in an inextricable chaos? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Edison tried a dozen different plans before he brought anything like order out of that engine chaos. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Never was harmony more perfect than that between the chaos of her mind and the chaos of the world without. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The human intellect cannot rest till law gives form to the wild chaos of fact. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Supposing this old social state WERE broken and destroyed, then, out of the chaos, what then? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Whereas without him, as you see, she is a mere stray, a fluffy sporadic bit of chaos. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- There is convincing proof of the existence of God in the very fact that Nature, even in chaos, cannot proceed otherwise than regula rly and according to law. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Seen near, it was a chaos--hollowhalf-consumed: an orb perished or perishing--half lava, half glow. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Black chaos comes, and the fettered gods of the earth say, Let there be light. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- All would have been chaos and ruin. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A splashing and a tramping; a hurrahing, uproaring, musket-volleying; the truest segment of Chaos seen in these latter Ages! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The first great capitalistic system developed and fell into chaos through its own inherent rottenness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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