butterfly effect

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Noun butterfly effect has 1 sense

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
--₁ is a kind of consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot

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