Chaos vs Earthquake - What's the difference?
chaos | earthquake |
(obsolete) A vast chasm or abyss.
The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony
Any state of disorder, any confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.
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(obsolete, rare) A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.
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(mathematics) Behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.
(fantasy) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.
A shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.2:
* 2006 , Declan Walsh, The Guardian , 6 Oct 2006:
As nouns the difference between chaos and earthquake
is that chaos is while earthquake is a shaking of the ground, caused by volcanic activity or movement around geologic faults.chaos
English
Noun
(en-noun)- What is the centre of the earth? is it pure element only, as Aristotle decrees, inhabited (as Paracelsus thinks) with creatures whose chaos is the earth: or with fairies, as the woods and waters (according to him) are with nymphs, or as the air with spirits?
Synonyms
* SeeAntonyms
* (classical cosmogony) cosmos * (state of disorder) orderDerived terms
(terms derived from chaos) * chaos theory * chaotic * controlled chaosSee also
* entropy * discord * capricious ----earthquake
English
(wikipedia earthquake)Noun
(en noun)- Her alablaster brest she soft did kis, / Which all that while shee felt to pant and quake, / As it an Earth-quake were: at last she thus bespake.
- Last year's earthquake crushed his house, his livelihood and very nearly his leg, he said, pointing to a plastered limb that refuses to heal.