A condition or place of great disorder or confusion.
A disorderly mass; a jumble: The desk was a chaos of papers and unopened letters.
often Chaos The disordered state of unformed matter and infinite space supposed in some cosmogonic views to have existed before the ordered universe.
Mathematics A dynamical system that has a sensitive dependence on its initial conditions.
Obsolete An abyss; a chasm.
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