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complexity theory

 
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–noun
1. the study of complex and chaotic systems and how order, pattern, and structure can arise from them.
2. the theory that processes having a large number of seemingly independent agents can spontaneously order themselves into a coherent system.
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complexity theory  
n.  The study of how order, structure, and pattern arise from extremely complicated, apparently chaotic systems.
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complexity theory   (kəm-plěk'sĭ-tē)  Pronunciation Key 

  1. See computational complexity.

  2. Any of various branches of mathematics, physics, computer science, and other fields, concerned with the emergence of order and structure in complex and apparently chaotic systems. See also chaos.


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