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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A phenomenon whereby disordered systems can spontaneously crystallize into a high degree of order. uncountable

Etymology

From anti- + chaos, coined by Stuart Kauffman in Antichaos and Adaptation (published in Scientific American, August 1991).

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