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Original entry ↗The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony. · Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration. · A behavior of iterative nonlinear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time. · One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂-der. Ancient Greek χαῦνος (khaûnos) Ancient Greek χάος (kháos)lbor. English chaos Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos, “vast chasm, void”). Doublet of gas, which was borrowed through Dutch. Displaced native Old English dwolma. In Early Modern English, used in the sense of the original Greek word. In the meaning “primordial matter” from the 16th century. Figurative usage in the sense “confusion, disorder” from the 17th century. The technical sense in mathematics and science dates from the 1960s.
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