chaos: 意味と定義

A condition or place of great disorder or confusion.

A disorderly mass; a jumble: The desk was a chaos of papers and unopened letters.

The disordered state of unformed matter and infinite space supposed in some cosmogonic views to have existed before the ordered universe.

Mathematics A dynamical system that has a sensitive dependence on its initial conditions.

Obsolete An abyss; a chasm.