attractor

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  1. noun One that attracts: flowers that are excellent attractors of hummingbirds.
  2. noun Physics A set of physical properties toward which a system tends to evolve, regardless of the starting conditions of the system.

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  • Here the only route to cohesive sanity is transcendence, the ability to perceive and inhabit the Multiverse entire, and the ability to choose one probability wave of self as the attractor and collapse the rest down onto it at will, to become, as McDonald puts it, Our Lady of All Worlds, able to traverse them all. —  Asimov'sSF,April-May2008
  • As the Hollywood tax rebates show, the best way to revive Michigan's economy, encourage innovative small business development, and change the state from a business repeller to a business attractor is to LOWER STATE BUSINESS TAXES AND PERSONAL INCOME TAXES. —  Mark Maynard
  • Palin: base energiser or swing vote attractor - Will Palin's tough talk win over undecideds? —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • Hegel's inflection of desire as well as the qualities of the attractor to via stoicism becomes important in achieve predictive accuracy. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Full-disclosure conficker. c - ccTLD strange attractor (fd) —  SecuObs.com
 

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