Usually means: Disorderly, unpredictable behavior in systems.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. chaos: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. Chaos, chaos: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. CHAOS: The Word Spy
  4. chaos: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. chaos: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Chaos, chaos: Vocabulary.com
  7. Chao's, Chaos, Chaos, chaos: Wordnik
  8. chaos: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. CHAOS, chaos: Wiktionary
  10. chaos: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. chaos: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. chaos: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. chaos: Dictionary.com
  14. chaos: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. chaos: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. CHAOS (Linux distribution), CHAOS (TV series), CHAOS (operating system), CHAOS (professional wrestling), Chaos (Attila album), Chaos (Dragonlance), Chaos (Final Fantasy character), Chaos (Kinnikuman), Chaos (Mathematics), Chaos (Paul Bley album), Chaos (Sailor Moon), Chaos (Sesame Park), Chaos (Sonic), Chaos (Sonic the Hedgehog character), Chaos (Warhammer), Chaos (Xenosaga), Chaos (amoeba), Chaos (cosmogony), Chaos (disambiguation), Chaos (film), Chaos (genus), Chaos (greek god), Chaos (journal), Chaos (mathematics), Chaos (mythology), Chaos (physics), Chaos (professional wrestling), Chaos (video game), Chaos, The Chaos (album), The Chaos: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Chaos: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. chaos: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. chaos: Rhymezone
  20. Chaos (nt), chaos, chaos (de), chaos (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. chaos: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. chaos: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. chaos: Free Dictionary
  24. chaos: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. chaos: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. chaos: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. Chaos: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. chaos: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. Chaos (greek god), chaos: Legal dictionary
  3. Chaos (greek god), Chaos: Financial dictionary
  4. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. chaos: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. Chaos (Mathematics), Chaos (greek god), chaos: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Chaos (greek god), chaos: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. CHAOS: Acronym Finder
  3. chaos: A Word A Day
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  5. chaos: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Chaos: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. Chaos: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. chaos: Nine Planets Glossary
  5. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Extreme Martial Arts Glosary (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.
noun:  Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.
noun:  (mathematics) A behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
noun:  (fantasy) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.
noun:  (obsolete) A vast chasm or abyss.
noun:  (obsolete, rare) A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.
noun:  (Greek mythology) In Greek mythology, the primordial state of disorder that exists before the creation of the world, or the first being or deity to exist.
noun:  (astronomy) A planetoid and cubewano orbiting in the Kuiper belt.
noun:  (fantasy, science fiction) In the Warhammer franchise, a demonic antagonist that sends demons, monsters, warriors, and beasts to wage war on the games' setting.
noun:  Initialism of congenital high airway obstruction syndrome.
noun:  (slang) Initialism of can't have anyone over syndrome.

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