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UK
/ɐtɹˈæktɐ/
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NOUN
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a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts
flowers are an attractor for bees -
an entertainer who attracts large audiences
he was the biggest drawing card they had - (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
How To Use attractor In A Sentence
- This pattern has developed into a state that conflict scholars label intractable and that mathematicians call an attractor: the Israel-Palestinian conflict has thus become an intractable attractor. Peter T. Coleman, PhD: The Mathematics of Middle East Conflict and Peace
- In other words, we are confronted with an intractable conflict attractor. Peter T. Coleman, PhD: The Mathematics of Middle East Conflict and Peace
- The stable points act as attractors, and correspondingly unstable points as repellers.
- For instance, using a san jan worm as a lead or "attractor" pattern followed by an RS2 or some other small midge type nymph. The Answer Line is Open...
- Legend has it that a group of early chaologists in Santa Cruz would sit in cafes looking for strange attractors through the window.
- Some of the deeper slower water by the golf course and downstream is best fished with swim feeder rig using hemp as an attractor with gentles or casters as hook bait.
- In practice, it was the spaces in between the scant few megastructures that were built that diluted the concept; too large to accommodate themselves into the existing fabric of city living, yet not distinct enough to act as attractors.
- Sunflower, niger, safflower and millet are popular attractors.
- And even though they may change temporarily we may lose seven pounds on a crash diet, odds are they will soon return to their attractor. Peter T. Coleman, PhD: The Mathematics of Middle East Conflict and Peace
- A huge volume of space that includes the Milky Way and super-clusters of galaxies is flowing towards a mysterious, gigantic unseen mass named mass astronomers have dubbed “The Great Attractor,” some 250 million light years from our Solar System. The ‘Great Attractor’: Exactly What is the Milky Way (and Neighbors) Speeding Towards at 14 Million Miles Per Hour? | Disinformation
