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antichaos

antichaos noun: a phenomenon whereby disordered systems can spontaneously crystallize into a high degree of order.

Noun

antichaos (uncountable)

  1. (chaos theory, evolutionary theory) A phenomenon whereby disordered systems can spontaneously crystallize into a high degree of order.

Origin of antichaos

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

Questions about antichaos

What does antichaos mean?
Antichaos means a phenomenon whereby disordered systems can spontaneously crystallize into a high degree of order.
What part of speech is antichaos?
Antichaos is a noun.

Words near antichaos in the dictionary

  1. antichains
  2. antichamber
  3. antichambers
  4. antichance
  5. antichange
  6. antichaos
  7. antichaotic
  8. antichaotropic
  9. anticharities
  10. anticharity
  11. anticharm

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