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at·trac·tor
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Princeton's WordNet
drawing card, draw, attraction, attractor, attracternoun
an entertainer who attracts large audiences
"he was the biggest drawing card they had"
attractor, attracternoun
(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
attraction, attractor, attracter, attractive feature, magnetnoun
a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts
"flowers are an attractor for bees"
Wiktionary
attractornoun
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.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Attractornoun
The agent that attracts; a drawer.
Etymology: from attract.
If the straws be in oil, amber draweth them not; oil makes the straws to adhere so, that they cannot rise unto the attractor. Thomas Browne, Vulgar Errours, b. ii.
Wikipedia
Attractor
In the mathematical field of dynamical systems, an attractor is a set of states toward which a system tends to evolve, for a wide variety of starting conditions of the system. System values that get close enough to the attractor values remain close even if slightly disturbed. In finite-dimensional systems, the evolving variable may be represented algebraically as an n-dimensional vector. The attractor is a region in n-dimensional space. In physical systems, the n dimensions may be, for example, two or three positional coordinates for each of one or more physical entities; in economic systems, they may be separate variables such as the inflation rate and the unemployment rate.If the evolving variable is two- or three-dimensional, the attractor of the dynamic process can be represented geometrically in two or three dimensions, (as for example in the three-dimensional case depicted to the right). An attractor can be a point, a finite set of points, a curve, a manifold, or even a complicated set with a fractal structure known as a strange attractor (see strange attractor below). If the variable is a scalar, the attractor is a subset of the real number line. Describing the attractors of chaotic dynamical systems has been one of the achievements of chaos theory. A trajectory of the dynamical system in the attractor does not have to satisfy any special constraints except for remaining on the attractor, forward in time. The trajectory may be periodic or chaotic. If a set of points is periodic or chaotic, but the flow in the neighborhood is away from the set, the set is not an attractor, but instead is called a repeller (or repellor).
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attractor
An attractor refers to a set of numerical values toward which a system tends to evolve, for a wide variety of starting conditions of the system. In the context of dynamical systems, an attractor is a condition or set of conditions that the system will settle towards over time. It is the value or set of values that the system most often behaves like, if given enough time.
Webster Dictionary
Attractornoun
one who, or that which, attracts
Wikidata
Attractor
An attractor is a set towards which a variable, moving according to the dictates of a dynamical system, evolves over time. That is, points that get close enough to the attractor remain close even if slightly disturbed. The evolving variable may be represented algebraically as an n-dimensional vector. The attractor is a region in n-dimensional space. In physical systems, the n dimensions may be, for example, two or three positional coordinates for each of one or more physical entities; in economic systems, they may be separate variables such as the inflation rate and the unemployment rate. If the evolving variable is two- or three-dimensional, the attractor of the dynamic process can be represented geometrically in two or three dimensions,. An attractor can be a point, a finite set of points, a curve, a manifold, or even a complicated set with a fractal structure known as a strange attractor. If the variable is a scalar, the attractor is a subset of the real number line. Describing the attractors of chaotic dynamical systems has been one of the achievements of chaos theory. A trajectory of the dynamical system in the attractor does not have to satisfy any special constraints except for remaining on the attractor. The trajectory may be periodic or chaotic. If a set of points is periodic or chaotic, but the flow in the neighbourhood is away from the set, the set is not an attractor, but instead is called a repeller.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of attractor in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of attractor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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