单词 | chaotic |
释义 | chaoticcha‧ot‧ic /keɪˈɒtɪk $ -ˈɑːtɪk/ ●○○ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorwhen something is not organized well► disorganized Collocations also disorganised British not arranged according to any kind of order or plan: · She gave a long disorganized speech that left everyone confused.totally/completely disorganized: · Her files were completely disorganized - she could never find anything she wanted.· a totally disorganized rescue effort ► badly organized also badly organised British not well organized - use this about events or activities that are not successful, because they have not been planned well: · The festival was very badly organized - nobody seemed to know what they were doing.· There was widespread criticism that the relief operation was slow and badly organized. ► badly run a business or organization that is badly run produces bad results because it is badly managed or organized: · The company is not badly run, but it still has not made a profit.· Critics say that the mayor's office is badly run and corrupt. ► chaotic extremely disorganized: · The city is a sprawling chaotic metropolis of some eight million residents.· Newscasts continued to broadcast images of the chaotic minutes after the shooting.· We flew on the day after Christmas and the situation at the airport was completely chaotic. ► be a mess/be a shambles informal if a situation or event is a mess or a shambles , it is very badly organized or badly controlled, and nothing good or useful is being achieved: · The social security system in this country is a mess.a complete/hopeless etc mess: · The whole conference was a complete mess from start to finish.in a mess/shambles: · The prolonged war has left the nation's economy in a shambles. ► in disarray if a group such as a political party is in disarray , it is disorganized and no longer effective, especially because the people who belong to it cannot agree with each other and cannot work together: · The defeated army retreated in disarray.in complete/total etc disarray: · The Democrats were in complete disarray after last year's disastrous elections.throw something into disarray (=make it become disorganized): · The chairman's resignation threw the organization into disarray. COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN► behavior a chaotic situation is one in which everything is happening in a confused way: a chaotic mixture of images· Using enzyme concentration as the bifurcation parameter it was possible to induce reversible transitions between periodic and chaotic behavior.· Experimental literature that explicitly suggests that chaotic behavior has been observed in neural systems not subject to periodic stimulation is more limited.· It is possible to speculate that this system might enter a region of chaotic behavior in vivo.· Thus, if the second-messenger network were to enter a domain of chaotic behavior, chaotic variation in membrane potential would result.· Specifically, can chaotic behavior result in a single-loop feedback system with a nonmonotonic nonlinearity?· Theoretical arguments also indicate that multicellular neural systems can enter domains of chaotic behavior.· They found evidence for chaotic behavior. ► behaviour· Secondly the standard routes to chaos imply the existence of a well-defined onset of chaotic behaviour.· These are the terms that are considered to induce chaotic behaviour in these cosmological models.· We have noted that chaotic behaviour can arise only for systems governed by non-linear equations.· Then chaotic behaviour recurs, with the phase space trajectories being initially confined to bands and subsequently filling a whole region.· An important aspect of such chaotic behaviour is sensitivity to initial conditions.· The existence of expanding and contracting directions is an essential prerequisite for chaotic behaviour in dissipative systems of this sort. ► situation· Mere words could do little in the short term to reverse the chaotic situation.· The chaotic situation gave an opening for the military coup.· Some observers feared a chaotic situation that could deprive the eventual winner of the legitimacy needed to govern. |
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