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Noun: attractor  u'trak-tu(r)
  1. A characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts
    "flowers are an attractor for bees";
    - attraction, attracter [rare], attractive feature, magnet
     
  2. An entertainer who attracts large audiences
    "The famous singer was a natural attractor at concerts";
    - drawing card, draw, attraction, attracter [rare]
     
  3. (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