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Categories: Causality, Stability theory, Metaphors referring to insects, Determinism, Articles with short description
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butterfly effect  Butterfly Effect Theory  butterfly metaphor  Chaos effect  Dragonfly Effect
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The phenomenon whereby a small change at one place in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere, e.g., a butterfly flapping its wings in Rio de Janeiro might change the weather in Chicago WordNet 3.0
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The phenomenon whereby a small change at one place in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere, e.g., a butterfly flapping its wings in Rio de Janeiro might change the weather in Chicago WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions in which a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state. Wikipedia
Metaphor for sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory. Wikipedia Disambiguation
A proverbial illustration of the chaos-theory idea that small causes can have large effects Wikipedia Disambiguation
Idea that small causes can have large effects in complex or nonlinear dynamic systems Wikidata
The technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory. OmegaWiki
Technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory. Wiktionary (translation)
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Butterfly Effect, Butterfly Effect Theory, butterfly metaphor, Chaos effect, Dragonfly Effect, quantum butterfly, sensitive dependence on initial conditions, Sensitive dependency on initial conditions

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