BUTTERFLYEFFECT

Butterfly effect

In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependency on initial conditions in which a small change at one place in a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state. The name of the effect, coined by Edward Lorenz, is derived from the theoretical example of a hurricane's formation being contingent on whether or not a distant butterfly had flapped its wings several weeks earlier.

The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Butterfly effect
and as such is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

butterfly effect

Noun

  1. The technical notion of sensitive dependence on initial conditions in chaos theory.


The above text is a snippet from Wiktionary: butterfly effect
and as such is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

Need help with a clue?
Try your search in the crossword dictionary!