Noun: attractor u'trak-tu(r)
- A characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts
"flowers are an attractor for bees";
- attraction, attracter [rare], attractive feature, magnet
- An entertainer who attracts large audiences
"The famous singer was a natural attractor at concerts";
- drawing card, draw, attraction, attracter [rare]
- (physics) a point in the ideal multidimensional phase space that is used to describe a system toward which the system tends to evolve regardless of the starting conditions of the system
"The strange attractor in chaos theory describes the long-term behaviour of certain dynamic systems";
- attracter [rare]
Derived forms: attractors
Type of: characteristic, entertainer, feature, point
Encyclopedia: Attractor