Definition of "attractors" []

• Plural form of attractor. (noun)

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• "There are too many variables and 'attractors' - in what is essentially a chaotic system - for current scientific investigation to point a finger at one specific cause until long after it has occurred."
• "It turns out that near chaos, the "attractors" that appear in the "phase-portrait" of the systems shift."
• "To settle this question a fourth generation of the egg was evolved and tested, while simultaneously a burst of research was carried out in the abstruse areas of "Hillbert space" and the topology of n-dimensional geometry, on the intuituve assumptions that new "attractors" could thereby be generated and used to visualize or "grok" the transitions between alternate universes."