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Definition: Chaos |
ChaosNoun1. A state of extreme confusion and disorder. 2. The formless and disordered state of matter before the creation of the cosmos. 3. (Greek mythology) the most ancient of gods; the personification of the infinity of space preceding creation of the universe. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "chaos" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Computing | Chaos A property of some non-linear dynamic systems which exhibit sensitive dependence on initial conditions. This means that there are initial states which evolve within some finite time to states whose separation in one or more dimensions of state space depends, in an average sense, exponentially on their initial separation. Such systems may still be completely deterministic in that any future state of the system depends only on the initial conditions and the equations describing the change of the system with time. It may, however, require arbitrarily high precision to actually calculate a future state to within some finite precision. ["On defining chaos", R. Glynn Holt |
Health | Complex behavior that seems random but actually has some hidden order. (references) |
Literature | Chaos (kaos ). Confusion; that confused mass of elemental substances supposed to have existed before God reduced creation into order. The poet Hesiod is the first extant writer that speaks of it. "Light, uncollected, through the chaos urged Its infant way, nor order yet had drawn His lovely train from out the dubious gloom." Thomson: Autumn, 732-4. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Multilingual Slang | French (bordel). (references) |
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This article is about the mythological concept. See Chaos theory for the mathematics and physics term. In Greek mythology, Chaos is the primeval state of existence from which the first gods appeared. The word "chaos" means "gaping void" in Greek. As a god, Chaos was the nothingness out of which the first objects of existence appeared. These first beings, described as children of Chaos alone, were Gaia, Tartarus and Eros, sometimes also including Nyx and Erebus. Ovid described Chaos in Metamorphoses as "rather a crude and indigested mass, a lifeless lump, unfashioned and unframed, of jarring seeds and justly Chaos named." According to some sources Chaos was the offspring of Chronos.Ovid. Metamorphoses; Hesiod. Theogony. (123-132) In Chinese mythology, Chaos is the name of a god which has no eyes and no ears. Once he invited two friends to his place, the two friends offer to craft two eyes and two ears on his face so that he can sense. But he soon died when he finally got his eyes and ears.
Also a cat Muppet character in the children's television show Sesame Park.
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In the table-top wargame Warhammer 40,000, Chaos refers to a nihilistic force composed of mainly of rebel Space Marines, but also enlisting the aid of Chaos daemons. The daemons and gods of Chaos come from The Warp, but the mainstay of their forces come from cultists in the material universe.The Chaos army is the only army that is basically the same in both Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40,000; although the Eldar, Orks and the Imperium definitely correspond to the Elves, Orcs and the Empire in the fantasy game, they do not share the same religion or the same units (as the Chaos forces do with their daemons).
The Horus Heresy
In the fictional history of the science fiction universe that the wargame is set in, the Horus Heresy took place after mankind's reconquest of the Galaxy, following the birth of Slaanesh. The Space Marines, the Imperium's elite and the mainstay of the conquering forces, became divided as some turned to Chaos and, led by the Warmaster Horus, turned on the Emperor's forces. This scenario mirrors the classic interpretation of the biblical tale of Satan's fall, with Horus corresponding to Satan, and the other, lesser, "Primarchs" corresponding to the fallen angels.
The armies of Chaos
The Chaos army is roughly divided into four parts -- one for each Chaos god -- although armies are usually composed of a mixture from each cult, producing a more diverse force, as the followers of each god specialise in certain tactics.
The Gods of Chaos
- The followers and daemons of the Blood God Khorne are vicious hand-to-hand warriors, and gain bonuses in the game reflecting that.
- Nurgle is the Plague God, and his cultists are tough and armed with plague weapons.
- Slaanesh, the "Lord of Pleasure", is a fetishistic deity and his followers' features and bonuses are based very much on the fear of pain.
- Tzeentch is the "Great Sorcerer", and corresponds in many ways to Fate. Tzeentch cultists have advantages in the psychic aspect of the game.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Chaos (Warhammer 40,000)."
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Established in the 1960s, chaos theory deals with dynamical systems that, while in principle deterministic, have a high sensitivity to initial conditions, because their governing equations are nonlinear. Examples for such systems are the atmosphere, plate tectonics, economies, and population growth.
Description of the theory
A non-linear dynamical system can in general exhibit one or more of the following types of behaviour:
The type of behaviour may depend on the initial state of the system and the values of its parameters, if any.
- forever at rest
- forever expanding (only for unbounded systems)
- in periodic motion
- in quasi-periodic motion
- in chaotic motion
Chaotic motion
The most famous type of behaviour is chaotic motion, a non-periodic complex motion which has given name to the theory. In order to classify the behaviour of a system as chaotic, the system must be
Sensitivity on the initial conditions means that two such systems with however small a difference in their initial state eventually will end up with a finite difference between their states (However, two deterministic systems with identical initial conditions will remain identical).
- bounded,
- sensitive on the initial conditions,
- transitive and
- The periodic orbits must be dense.
An example of such sensitivity is the well-known butterfly effect, whereby the flapping of a butterfly's wings produces tiny changes in the atmosphere which over the course of time cause it to diverge from what it would have been and potentially cause something as dramatic as a tornado to occur. Other commonly known examples of chaotic motion are the mixing of colored dyes and airflow turbulence.
Transitivity means that application of the transformation on any given Interval I1 stretches it until it overlaps with any other given Interval I2.
The fourth condition means that for any point in the system and any real number ε > 0 there is another point with distance d ≤ ε which is located on an periodic orbit.
Strange attractors
One way of visualizing chaotic motion, or indeed any type of motion, is to make a phase diagram of the motion. In such a diagram time is implicit and each axis represents one dimension of the state. For instance, a system at rest will be plotted as a point and a system in periodic motion will be plotted as a simple closed curve.
A phase diagram for a given system may depend on the initial state of the system (as well as on a set of parameters), but often phase diagrams reveal that the system ends up doing the same motion for all initial states in a region around the motion, almost as though the system is attracted to that motion. Such attractive motion is fittingly called an attractor for the system and is very common for forced dissipative systems.
While most of the motion types mentioned above give rise to very simple attractors, such as points and circle-like curves called limit cycles, chaotic motion gives rise to what are known as strange attractors, attractors that can have great detail and complexity. For instance, a simple three-dimensional model of the Lorenz weather system gives rise to the famous Lorenz attractor. The Lorenz attractor is perhaps one of the best known chaotic system diagrams, probably because not only was it one of the first, but it is one of the most complex and as such gives rise to a very interesting pattern which looks like the eyes of an owl.
Strange attractors have fractal structure.
History
The theory has roots back to around 1950 when it first became evident for some scientists that linear theory, the prevailing system theory at that time, simply could not explain the observed behaviour of certain experiments like that of the logistic map. The main catalyst for the development of chaos theory was the electronic computer. Much of the mathematics of chaos theory involves the repeated iteration of simple mathematical formulas, which would be impractical to do by hand. Moore's law and the availability of cheaper computers has greatly increased the extent of chaos theory. As of 2003, chaos theory continues to be a very active area of research.
An early pioneer of the theory was Edward Lorenz whose interest in chaos came about accidentally through his work on weather prediction in 1961. Lorenz was using a basic computer to run his simulation of the weather. He wanted to see a sequence of data again and to save time he started the simulation in the middle of its course. He was able to do this by entering a printout of the data corresponding to conditions in the middle of his simulation which he had calculated last time.
To his surprise the weather that the machine began to predict was completely different to the weather calculated before. Lorenz tracked this down to only bothering to enter 3-digit numbers in to the simulation, whereas the computer had last time worked with 5-digit numbers. This difference is tiny and the consensus at the time would have been that it should have had practically no effect. However Lorenz had discovered that small changes in initial conditions produced large changes in the long-term outcome.
The importance of chaos theory can be illustrated by the following observations:
- In popular terms, a linear system is exactly equal to the sum of its parts, whereas a non-linear system can be more than the sum of its parts. This mean that in order to study and understand the behaviour of a non-linear system one need in principle to study the system as a whole and not just its parts in isolation.
- It has been said that if the universe is an elephant, then linear theory can only be used to describe the last molecule in the tail of the elephant and chaos theory must be used to understand the rest. Or, in other words, almost all interesting real-world systems are described by non-linear systems.
Mathematical theory
Mathematicians have devised many additional ways to make quantitative statements about chaotic systems. These include
- fractal dimension of the attractor
- Lyapunov exponents
- recurrence plots
- Poincaré maps
- bifurcation diagrams
Minimum complexity of a chaotic system
Many simple systems can also produce chaos without relying on partial differential equations, such as the logistic equation, which describes population growth over time.
Even discrete systems can heavily depend on initial conditions, such as cellular automata. Stephen Wolfram has investigated a cellular automaton with this property, termed by him rule 30.
Other examples of chaotic systems
See also: fractal, Dynamical systems and chaos theory, Benoit Mandelbrot, Mandelbrot set, Julia set, predictability, Mitchell Feigenbaum
- Double pendulum
- Logistic map
References
- Chaotic and Fractal Dynamics, by Francis C. Moon, ISBN 0471545716
Further Reading
The Beauty of Fractals, by H.-O. Peitgen and P.H. Richter Chaotic Evolution and Strange Attactors, by David Ruelle Computers, Pattern, Chaos, and Beauty, by Clifford A. Pickover Fractals, by Hans Lauwerier Fractals Everywhere, by Michael Barnsley The Fractal Geometry of Nature, by Benoit Mandelbrot Order Out of Chaos, by Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers The Science of Fractal Images, by Heinz-Otto Peitgen and Dietmar Saupe, Eds. Chaos Theory and Education Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Chaos theory."
Synonyms: ChaosSynonyms: bedlam (n), pandemonium (n), topsy-turvydom (n), topsy-turvyness (n). (additional references) |
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Agitation | Disturbance, chaos; (disorder); restlessness; (changeableness). |
Amorphism | Chaos, randomness (disorder). |
Disorder | Phrase: the cart before the horse; gr/hysteron proteron/gr chaos is come again; "the wreck of matter and the crush of worlds ". |
Noun: disorder; derangement; irregularity; anomaly; (unconformity); anarchy, anarchism; want of method; untidiness; Adjective: disunion; discord. confusion; confusedness; Adjective: mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber; cahotage; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss, hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch, hotch-pot; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum, medley; mere mixture; fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra, rudis indigestaque moles. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Chaos |
| English words defined with "chaos": Aether ♦ balagan, bring forth ♦ chaotically ♦ Erebus ♦ generate ♦ Nyx. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "chaos": ALGOL 68C ♦ backbone cabal ♦ FREEMASONS ♦ Nonlinear Dynamics ♦ Satan's Journey to Earth, Saturnian Days ♦ Y'mir. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "chaos": Chasm. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Chaos" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Afrikaan (chaos, tangle), Czech (anarchy, chaos, confusion, mess up), Dutch (chaos, tangle), French (chaos, pandemonium, tangle), German (bedlam, chaos, havoc, mayhem, pandemonium, screw up, tangle), Latin (chaos, tangle), Spanish (chaos). |
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Screenplays | Chaos and man, although hopeful could also be, you know, a leeetle tiresome (S.L.C. Punk!; writing credit: James Merendino.) In a world of chaos, wrinkle-free pants keep you sane (Vengeance Unlimited; writing credit: Andrew Davies; William Makepeace Thackeray) Oh, I was just picturing what I will do to you once I am free from your little toy. You have no idea the power you try to control! Chaos will always triumph over order (ReBoot; writing credit: Christy Marx; Mark Leiren-Young) I brought ruin upon the hands of unfaithful men. I offered destruction and chaos for the pleasure of the lower beings (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer) Nice to see you, Captain Chaos! (Cannonball Run II; writing credit: Harvey Miller; Hal Needham) | |
Lyrics | Cause chaos, rock like Amadeus (Cowboy; performing artist: KID ROCK) From the banks of chaos in my mind (De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da; performing artist: The Police) Chaos, the cops gonna block the street (Will2K; performing artist: Will Smith) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Chaos (1967) Das Kleine Chaos (1966) Out of Chaos (1944) Chaos and Cadavers (2003) | |
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 | "Chaos Auf Ebene" (movie) by Rainer Wonisch. |  | The chaos / B. Picart, dir. ; A. Diepenbeck, fig. ; B. Picart, del. 1731. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Shall chaos triumph? Victory Fund Campaign--The new era movement of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. / / M. Leone Bracker 1919 ; American Lithographic Co., N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Bicycle Chaos" by Erika Thorpe Commentary: "Bicycle parking zone on college campus." | "Confusion" by Steve Matthews Commentary: "One of the busy intersections in Japan. Every few minutes total chaos brakes loose. But it is amazing how polite the people are…." |
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox | The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs. |
Henry Adams | Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit. |
Lord Byron | Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people. |
Oscar Wilde | His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language. |
Robert Bolt | When statesmen forsake their own private conscience for the sake of their public duties they lead their country by a short route to chaos. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He examined without passion, and with the eye of a linguist decyphering a palimpsest, the portion of chaos which there is yet in nature |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The chaos in which his ardour extinguished itself was a cold indifferent knowledge of himself |
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Business | It emerged as a coalition of interests after the chaos of the Revolution as a vehicle for keeping political competition in peaceful channels. (references) | |
The second disincentive to lend lies in the chaos of debt-restructuring and economic weakness into which the Indonesian corporate sector has sunk. This will improve as corporate debt-restructuring proceeds and as the economy continues to strengthen. (references) | ||
They have to be ready for economic and political uncertainties, chaos, corruption, both government and mafia (very often they are closely connected) interference, differences in business practices of this region, which is often named the “wild East” in comparison to the U.S. “wild West”. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Argentina | In the resulting chaos, at least five persons were shot and killed, with many others injured. (references) |
Economic History | Somalia | The resulting chaos and loss of life promoted the international intervention led by the United States, UNITAF. (references) |
Lebanon | This period of chaos witnessed the beginning of terrorist attacks launched against U.S. and Western interests. (references) | |
Human Rights | Guatemala | The prisoners appeared to be taking advantage of the chaos of the activities planned to celebrate Prisoner's Day to make an escape. (references) |
Guatemala | Among other problems, he identified a lack of professional training among prison staff, administrative chaos within the bureaucracy, corruption and an inability to fire corrupt employees, a lack of physical control inside of prisons, and a chronic shortage of the resources needed to effect meaningful organizational change. (references) | |
Political Economy | Argentina | On the other hand, the public's memory of decades of increasing economic chaos culminating in the hyper-inflationary episodes of 1989-90 is still vivid. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | FREEMASONS, n. An order with secret rites, grotesque ceremonies and fantastic costumes, which, originating in the reign of Charles II, among working artisans of London, has been joined successively by the dead of past centuries in unbroken retrogression until now it embraces all the generations of man on the hither side of Adam and is drumming up distinguished recruits among the pre-Creational inhabitants of Chaos and Formless Void. The order was founded at different times by Charlemagne, Julius Caesar, Cyrus, Solomon, Zoroaster, Confucious, Thothmes, and Buddha. Its emblems and symbols have been found in the Catacombs of Paris and Rome, on the stones of the Parthenon and the Chinese Great Wall, among the temples of Karnak and Palmyra and in the Egyptian Pyramids -- always by a Freemason. |
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Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | This will be not only a just acknowledgment of the loyalty of the people of the Philippines, but it will help to avoid the economic chaos which otherwise will be their heritage from our common war. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Eighth, we must strengthen the ability of free nations everywhere to develop their independence and raise their standard of living, and thereby frustrate those who prey on poverty and chaos. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | As Americans, we know there are times when we must step forward and accept our responsibility to lead the world away from the dark chaos of dictators, toward the bright promise of a better day. |
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| "Chaos" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.82% of the time. "Chaos" is used about 1,638 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.82% | 1,635 | 5,088 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.12% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (plural) | 0.06% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,638 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "chaos": Chaos Computer Club ♦ chaos in the brain ♦ chaos mirror ♦ chaos of rocks ♦ chaos on the roads ♦ gr/hysteron proteron/gr chaos is come again ♦ in chaos ♦ utter chaos. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "chaos": chaos-oozing, chaos-stuff, chaos-worshipping. | |
Ending with "chaos": near-chaos, snow-chaos. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
chaos legion | 602 | aim chaos | 59 |
chaos | 529 | chaos cheat fu kung | 55 |
chaos theory | 492 | warcraft 3 reign of chaos | 51 |
chaos king | 462 | capcom chaos snk svc vs | 42 |
capcom chaos snk vs | 199 | chaos urban video | 42 |
kung fu chaos | 145 | bleeds chaos | 41 |
lord of chaos | 124 | chaos symbol | 40 |
total chaos | 97 | chaos magic | 39 |
bleeds buffy chaos slayer vampire | 97 | chao chaos | 39 |
chaos im | 88 | chaos combo | 30 |
camp chaos | 84 | chaos space marine | 29 |
chaos svc | 84 | blown chaos full | 29 |
chaos comic | 81 | chaos legion wallpaper | 28 |
time chaos | 78 | 2 bleeds buffy chaos slayer vampire | 28 |
chaos magick | 71 | chaos kennel | 27 |
urban chaos | 70 | 2 bleeds buffy chaos | 27 |
bleeds buffy chaos | 67 | edge of chaos | 26 |
chaos gate | 65 | warcraft iii reign of chaos | 26 |
sonic chaos | 65 | chaos club | 23 |
black chaos magician | 65 | 3 chaos cheat reign warcraft | 23 |
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| Language | Translations for "chaos"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | chaos (tangle), baaierd (tangle). (various references) | |
Albanian | rrëmujë e plotë, kaos. (various references) | |
Arabic | فوضى (anarchy, clatter, clutter, commotion, confusion, disarray, disorder, hugger mugger, jumble, lawlessness, litter, mess, misrule, mix up, muddle, muss, rumpus, shambles, topsy turvy, turmoil, welter), هباء (dust, vanity), تشوش كامل, الهيولى (matter), اللاتكون, التشوش (confusion, criss cross, interference), الشواش, إختلاط (admixture, criss cross, muddle, promiscuity). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | хаос (anarchy, bedlam, clutter, interregnum, maze, mix, pandemonium, snafu, topsy turvy, topsy-turvydom, whirl). (various references) | |
Chinese | 纷乱, 混亂 (confusion), 凌亂 . (various references) | |
Czech | chaos (anarchy, confusion, mess up), zmatek (anarchy, bewilderment, circus, clutter, confusion, disarray, disorder, disturbance, embroilment, fluster, hash, hodge-podge, jumble, maze, mess up, mix up, moil, muddle, Mull, nonplus, non-plus, pandemonium, perplexity, perturbation, puzzlement, shambles, stew, tangle, tempest, tumble, tumult, turbulence, turmoil, turnup, upset, welter). (various references) | |
Danish | rod (confusion, disorder, root, tangle). (various references) | |
Dutch | warboel (tangle), rommel (clippings, confusion, cuttings, debris, disorder, garbage, leavings, parings, refuse, remainder, rest, rubbish, rubble, tangle, waste, windfall), chaos (tangle), baaierd (tangle). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kaoso (tangle), ĥaoso (tangle). (various references) | |
Faeroese | ruðuleiki (tangle), fløkja (tangle). (various references) | |
Farsi | هرج ومرج (Anarchy), اشفتگی (Consternation, Disorder, Nonplus, Rummage, Tumble, Turmoil, Unrest), شلوغی (Bustle, Crowd, Jumble), بی نظمی کامل . (various references) | |
Finnish | sekasorto (confusion, disorder), kaaos. (various references) | |
French | chaos. (various references) | |
Frisian | tizeboel (tangle), disoarder (tangle). (various references) | |
German | chaos (bedlam, havoc, mayhem, pandemonium, screw up, tangle), durcheinander (babel of tongues, bedlam, clutter, cluttered, confused, confusion, disorder, entanglement, hash, helter-skelter, in a mess, in a muddle, in confusion, Jumble, mess, mix up, mixed up, muddle, muddled, muddled up, mussy, pell mell, piecemeal, punch-drink, tangle, tumble, upset). (various references) | |
Greek | χάοσ, χάος (chaow). (various references) | |
Hebrew | תוהו ובוהו (emptiness, pandemonium, topsy turvy), אי סדר (disarray, disorder, litter, mess, turmoil, untidiness), אנדרלמוסיה (confusion, disorder, pandemonium, pestilence, plaque, tumult, turmoil, upheaval), בהו (confusion, emptiness, void). (various references) | |
Hungarian | káosz (anarchy). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kekisruhan (confusion, muddle), kekalang-kabutan (confusion), kekacauan (anarchy, clutter, disarrangement, disarray, disorder, disorganazation, disruption). (various references) | |
Italian | caos (shambles). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 無秩序 (confusion, disorder), 混沌 (confusion), 混乱 (confusion, disorder), 混乱 (confusion, disorder, mayhem), 渾沌 (confusion, disorder), 乱麻 (anarchy), 乱脈 (confusion, disorder), グロー放電 (cage, cake, case, case by case, case method, case study, casework, caseworker, chassis ground, frame ground, gloria, glossary, glow discharge, groggy, grotesque, knock-out, KO), カーボン紙 (black currant, cacao, cactus, Caesar, Cairo, car lease, car life, car race, car radio, carbon paper, carcase, carcass, Carlton, carmine, carport, Casio, Cassiopeia, Cassisliqueur, chiropractic, chiropractor, cocktail, cocktail dress, cocktail glass, cocktail lounge, cocktail party, couch potato, counseling, counselor, count, countdown, counter, counter attack, counter display, counterblow, counter-propagation, counterpunch, counterpurchase, count-out, cowboy, cowboy hat, cowhide, curl, Curlash, curler, curling, curve, Kahn, Kaiser, Kamasutra, Kashmir, kinesics, kite, kymograph, rustle, television addict), ケーソン病 (cable, cable car, caisson disease, cane, capability, cape, care, care taker, careless mistake, case, catering service, caving, wellness care). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | こんらん (confusion, disorder, mayhem), こんとん (confusion, disorder), むちつじょ (confusion, disorder), らんま (anarchy, transom), らんみゃく (confusion, disorder), カオス , ケーオス , ケイオス . (various references) | |
Korean | 혼돈. (various references) | |
Malay | kekacauan (tangle). (various references) | |
Manx | corvaal (confusion, mix up, muddle, shambles, turmoil). (various references) | |
Papiamen | kaos (tangle), desòrden (ado, din, noise, tangle), bochincha (ado, din, noise, tangle), babel (ado, din, noise, tangle). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aoschay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | caos (smashup, tangle). (various references) | |
Romanian | prãpastie (abysm, abyss, chasm, depth, disaster, gulf, hollow, precipice, ravine, scar, steep), haos (confusion, pell mell, pie), babilonie (Babel, hubbub, hullabaloo), anarhie (anarchy, lawlessness). (various references) | |
Russian | хаос (clutter, mayhem, pandemonium). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | rusvaj, rasulo (anomie, breakdown, havoc, tumble), rastrojstvo (anomie, derangement, shatter), haos (snafu, welter). (various references) | |
Spanish | caos (snarl up, tangle). (various references) | |
Swedish | kaos (pandemonium, shambles, snafu, tangle, turmoil, welter). (various references) | |
Turkish | kaos (pie, tangle). (various references) | |
Turkmen | garma-gьrmelik (confusion). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хаос (clutter, misrule, upturn), безладдя (bewilderment, clutter, confusion, derangement, disarrangement, disorder, hoity toity, huddle, hugger mugger, mess, misrule, mix, moil, pell mell, pellmell, puddle, racket, shambles, sozzle, topsy turvy, upset, welter). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thời đại hỗn nguyên, thời đại hỗn mang sự hỗn độn, sự lộn xộn (confusedness, devil, disarray, messiness, riot, shemozzle, untidiness), sự hỗn loạn (turbolence). (various references) | |
Welsh | tryblith (muddle), anhrefn (anarchy, confusion, disorder). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | khaos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | chaos, chaus, congerie, congeriem, congeries, melchae. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "chaos": chaoses. (additional references) | |
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"Chaos" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: cahol, cahot, cahow, caos, caoss, caso, Ccaod, Cfao, chacok, chads, chagoi, chagool, Chagos, chaio, chais, chaius, chaiw, Chalo, Chamot, Chans, chao, chaor, chaot, chaous, Chaozhu, Chapot, charos, Charost, chas, chaso, chasos, Chatou, chaud, chauds, chauf, Chauk, Chaus, chauss, chauw, chavot, chays, Chazov, cheapos, cheeow, Chemosh, cheops, chiao, chibol, chibols, chicos, chiol, chiops, Chiot, chmos, choa, choad, choam, choas, choat, cholos, choos, chos, chosx, choz, chuo, Ghaus, haos, nhao, ohaus, Shaozu. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "chaos" (pronounced 'Cha"os'): Logos, Naos, Pronaos. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-o-s" | |
-1 letter: cash, chao, cosh, ocas. | |
-2 letters: ash, cos, hao, has, oca, ohs, sac, sha. | |
-3 letters: ah, as, ha, ho, oh, os, sh, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-o-s" | |
+1 letter: cahows, cashoo, havocs, machos, mochas, nachos, shacko. | |
+2 letters: anchors, archons, aurochs, cachous, cahoots, carhops, cashbox, cashoos, chadors, chamiso, chamois, chanson, chaoses, charros, cheapos, chollas, chorals, choreas, chromas, coaches, coheads, coprahs, gauchos, hassock, hopsack, isopach, isotach, loaches, lochans, noncash, oraches, poaches, ranchos, roaches, salchow, scholar, scholia, shackos, shoepac, stomach, whackos. | |
+3 letters: achiotes, acholias, actorish, alcohols, aphonics, avouches, backhoes, broaches, caboshed, calathos, camphols, camphors, caroches, cashbook, cathodes, cathouse, chabouks, chalones, chamisos, chansons, chantors, chariots, charpoys, chayotes, chicanos, chitosan, chloasma, chlorals, cholates, choleras, choragus, chorales, chubasco, coachers, coalfish, coalshed, cochairs, cochleas, cohabits, cowhages, cowhands, eschalot, gouaches, haddocks, halcyons, hammocks, haricots, hassocks, haycocks, hoecakes, hogbacks, hopsacks, horsecar, hotcakes, isopachs, isotachs, machismo, machzors, mochilas, monarchs, moschate, nomarchs, orchards, pachucos, panochas, panoches, picachos, poachers, pochards, salchows, scaphoid, scholars, shackoes, shaddock, shamrock, shoelace, shoepack, shoepacs, showcase, soutache, stomachs, stomachy, tachyons, thoraces, trochars. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Quotations: Familiar 10. Quotations: Fiction 11. Quotations: Non-fiction 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Translations: Ancient 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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