Sentence examples for attractor from inspiring English sources

In classical mechanics the behaviour of a dynamical system can be described geometrically as motion on an "attractor".

The mathematics of classical mechanics effectively recognized three types of attractor: single points (characterizing steady states), closed loops (periodic cycles), and tori (combinations of several cycles).

I set up my fly rod and tied on an all-around attractor fly.

He said he envisioned himself as New York City's "chief investment attractor," traveling the globe to encourage corporations to open offices here.

By the late 90s, Smith was, as he put it in his single Just Cruisin', "the eclectic female attractor, rapper-slash-actor".

This meant HS2 would merely make London even more magnetic an economic attractor.

So the Pixel phone becomes a referendum on Google: If users buy into the idea of a Google phone, then Google knows that its brand and its services are a key attractor in a like-for-like shoot out in a high competitive market.

Strange Attractor themselves have been having a noteworthy year, establishing themselves as publishers who value the book as object as well as text and in addition to London's Lost Rivers I've really enjoyed their lovely editions of Phil Baker's Austin Osman Spare biography, and Somnium, by Alan Moore's mentor Steve Moore.

The background was hotter on one side of the sky and cooler on the other: a "dipole" that meant our galaxy was moving at a phenomenal relative speed, which could only be explained if there was a huge undiscovered distant structure somewhere in space, such as a supercluster of galaxies, pulling it (this was found later and is called the "great attractor").

The book is out on 30 April via publisher Strange Attractor.

Murderous and self-sanctifying, radical Islam has become a global attractor for psychopaths.