chaos has definitions from the fields of Greek mythology,religion,physics
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[ noun ] a state of extreme confusion and disorder

Used in print

(Chester G. Starr, The Origins of Greek Civili...)

In earlier centuries men had had enough to do in rebuilding a fundamental sense of order after chaos .

(Arthur Miller, "The Prophecy," in The Best...)

His files , desk , drafting_board and a high stool formed the only clean island in the chaos .

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confusion balagan

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[ noun ] the formless and disordered state of matter before the creation of the cosmos

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physical_phenomenon

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[ noun ] (physics) a dynamical system that is extremely sensitive to its initial conditions

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dynamical_system physics

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[ noun ] (Greek mythology) the most ancient of gods; the personification of the infinity of space preceding creation of the universe
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