chaos

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.

   to descend into chaos

2. 2
   noun

   A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.

   What is in the centre of the earth, or is it pure element only, as Ariſtotle decrees inhabited as Paracelſus thinks with creatures, whoſe Chaos is the earth with Fairies, as the woods and waters according to him, are with Nymphes or as the ayre with ſpirits.

3. 3
   name

   In the Warhammer franchise, a demonic antagonist that sends demons, monsters, warriors, and beasts to wage war on the games' setting.

   Chaos warrior, Chaos daemon

4. 4
   noun

   (physics) a dynamical system that is extremely sensitive to its initial conditions

5. 5
   noun

   the formless and disordered state of matter before the creation of the cosmos

6. 6
   noun

   a state of extreme confusion and disorder

7. 7
   noun

   The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.

8. 8
   noun

   A behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.

Etymology

From Latin chaos (“chaos”), from Ancient Greek χάος (kháos).