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attractor

/uh-trak-ter/US // əˈtræk tər //

吸引子,吸引者,吸引器,吸引物

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person or thing that attracts.
    • : Physics. a state or behavior toward which a dynamic system tends to evolve, represented as a point or orbit in the system's phase space.

Examples

  • Rapidly, but with unerring precision, the two ships were brought into place and held together by the attractor.

  • The Skylark was still in place, held immovable by the attractor, but what a sight she was!

  • As the animal showed no sign of leaving its retreat, Seaton pulled it out with the attractor and it broke for the surface.

  • Pliny in his origin of glass will have it that a loadstone is an attractor of glass, as well as of iron.

  • As an attractor of Negative Thought he is a glittering success.