Example of butterfly effect: stepping on a bug 4,000 years ago causes a different person to win the presidential election today.
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Butterfly effect
Synonyms for "butterfly effect" (5 found)
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Noun(1 words)
causal ripple
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Noun(2 words)
chaos sensitivitydeterministic unpredictability
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Noun(1 words)
initial-condition sensitivity
Adjective(1 words)
nonlinear dynamics
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6 entriesLorenz attractorchaos theoryinitial conditionsnonlinear dynamicssensitive dependencesmall perturbations
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1 entriesbutterfly effects
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