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Definition of Attracter

1. Noun. An entertainer who attracts large audiences. "He was the biggest drawing card they had"

2. Noun. (physics) a point in the ideal multidimensional phase space that is used to describe a system toward which the system tends to evolve regardless of the starting conditions of the system.

3. Noun. A characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts. "Flowers are an attractor for bees"

Definition of Attracter

1. n. One who, or that which, attracts.

Definition of Attracter

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Attracter

attowatt attowatts attr attract mode attract modes attractability attractable attractance attractances attractancies

attractancy attractant attractants attracted attracter (current term) attracters attractile attracting attractingly attraction

attraction sphere attractions attractive attractive(a) attractive feature attractive force attractive nuisance attractive nuisances attractively

Literary usage of Attracter

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, in the Years 1768, 1769, 1770 by James Bruce (1804)
"... the attracter of water;" a quality ascribed to this goddess by her native votaries. The other planets seem to hare received no divine honours in Egypt, ..."

2. Tobacco: Its History and Associations; Including an Account of the Plant and by Frederick William Fairholt (1876)
"... attracter, and glutton-feeder of the appetite, rather taken of many for wantonnesse, when they have nothing else to do than of any absolute or ..."

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