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butterfly effects

butterfly effects is the plural of butterfly effect.

Meaning of butterfly effect

Noun

butterfly effect (plural butterfly effects)

  1. The technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory.
  2. (broadly) The concept that minor alterations to past events, particularly through time travel, may lead to significant and unpredictable consequences in the present.
    • Example of butterfly effect: stepping on a bug 4,000 years ago causes a different person to win the presidential election today.

Questions about butterfly effects

What is butterfly effects the plural of?
Butterfly effects is the plural of butterfly effect.

Words near butterfly effects in the dictionary

  1. butterfly crab
  2. butterfly crabs
  3. butterfly door
  4. butterfly doors
  5. butterfly effect
  6. butterfly effects
  7. butterfly fish
  8. butterfly fishes
  9. butterfly ginger
  10. butterfly keyboard
  11. butterfly keyboards

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