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butterfly effect

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Noun1.butterfly effect - the phenomenon whereby a small change at one place in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere, e.g., a butterfly flapping its wings in Rio de Janeiro might change the weather in Chicago
consequence, effect, result, upshot, outcome, event, issue - a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event"


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The first "Wonder," Monument to the Present State of Things, enacts the idea of causal interconnectedness, the so-called butterfly effect.
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Researchers call this phenomenon the butterfly effect -- a name coined in the early 1970s after Lorenz posed an intriguing question in a lecture: Could the flap of a butterfly's wings over Brazil spawn a tornado over Texas?
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