chaos

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  1. noun A condition or place of great disorder or confusion.
  2. noun A disorderly mass; a jumble: The desk was a chaos of papers and unopened letters.
  3. noun The disordered state of unformed matter and infinite space supposed in some cosmogonic views to have existed before the ordered universe.
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  • The implication is that somewhere beside or outside of all this chaos is an organized world. —  F ;SF; - vol 087 issue 02 - August 1994
  • In the middle of all the chaos was a central desk, at which sat anchorman Ashira Nagato of InterplaNet News and Dr. Hilda Kremer--at least who they all thought was Dr. Hilda Kremer Torsten started his own voice-over. —  Analog, July-August 2006
  • Smack dab in the middle of the chaos is the gorgeous ballad "Burden" which will remind listeners of bands like Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin. —  Roadrunner Records Latest News
  • Not yet have I found any better method to prosper during the future financial chaos, which is likely to last many years, than to keep your net worth in shares in those corporations, which have proven to have the widest profit margins and the most rapidly increasing profits. —  The American Spectator
  • Hackers take advantage of this kind of chaos, are you ready? —  MSDN Blogs
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  1. Middle English, formless primordial space, from Latin, from Greek khaos.

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  1. = F. Portuguese chaos = Spanish Italian caos = D. G. Danish Swedish chaos = Russian khaosŭ, from Latin chaos, from Greek χάος, empty space, abyss, chaos (cf. χάσμα, a yawning hollow, abyss, chasm, English chasm), from √ *χα in χαίνειν, gape, yawn, akin to L. hiscere, gape, hiare, gape, and to English yawn: see chasm, hiatus, and yawn.
 

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