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attractor  

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  • In the mathematical field of dynamical systems, an attractor is a set of states toward which a system tends to evolve, for a wide variety of starting conditions of the system. System values that get close enough to the attractor values remain close even if slightly disturbed.
    (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractor)

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