Significations et usages de chaos

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Chaos may refer to:

  Mythology, philosophy, and religion

• Chaos, especially in biblical usage, a chasm or abyss
• Chaos magic, a branch of occultism
• Chaos (cosmogony), the concept in classical creation myths

  Science and mathematics

• any state of confusion or disorder, see disorder
• Randomness, a lack of intelligible pattern or combination
• Chaos theory, a branch of mathematics and physics that deals with the behavior of certain nonlinear dynamical systems
• Chaos (genus), a type of giant amoeba
• Polynomial chaos, an expansion in probability theory, invented by Norbert Wiener
• 19521 Chaos, a Trans-Neptunian Kuiper belt object
• Chaosnet, an early set of network communication protocols

  Titles

• short title of an alchemical treatise by Heinrich Khunrath
• Liber Chaos, an alchemical treatise by Raimundus Lullus
• Chaos: Making a New Science, a 1987 book by James Gleick that was nominated for a Pulitzer prize
• "The Chaos", poem by Gerard Nolst Trenité which illustrates English spelling and pronunciation

  Film and television

• Chaos (1984 film), the American release of the Italian film Kaos directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
• Chaos (2000 film), a Japanese film directed by Hideo Nakata
• Chaos (2001 film), a French film directed by Coline Serreau
• Chaos (2005 Capitol film), directed by Tony Giglio, starring Jason Statham and Wesley Snipes
• Chaos (2005 Dominion film), directed by David DeFalco
• Chaos (2006 film) a Polish film directed by Xawery Zulawski
• CHAOS (TV series), a 2011 American television series airing on CBS
• Le Chaos, a 2007 Arabic-language film by Egyptian directors Youssef Chahine and Khaled Youssef
• Kaos (film), titled Chaos in American release, a 1984 Italian film directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani
• KAOS (Get Smart), the criminal spy agency in the television series Get Smart

  Music

• Chaos A.D., sixth album of Sepultura, a Brazilian heavy metal band
• Chaos UK, a British punk/UK82 band
• "Chaos", a song by Mutemath from their self-titled debut album
• "Chaos", a song by Skold from Skold
• "Chaos", a song on the album Psyence Fiction by UNKLE
• Chaos, an album of Jaycee Chan released on April 16, 2010
• "Khaos", a single by the Japanese solo artist Közi

  Video games

• Chaos (Battle Arena Toshinden), character in the Battle Arena Toshinden fighting game series
• Chaos (Sonic the Hedgehog), a character in the Sonic the Hedgehog video game franchise
• Chaos (Final Fantasy), an enemy in Final Fantasy
• Chaos (Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy), matter from the Fabula Nova Crystallis mythos that comes from Valhalla
• Chaos;Head, a Japanese "visual novel" (video game)
• Chaos (Loom), a villain in the LucasArts adventure game Loom
• Chaos (video game), a 1985 computer game for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum
• chaos (Xenosaga), a fictional character from the Xenosaga video game series
• Nrvnqsr Chaos, a character from the vampire mythology created by Kinoko Nasu

  Entertainment and popular culture

• Chaos 2, a combat robot from the British TV series Robot Wars
• Chaos (Dragonlance), a supreme god in the fantasy world of Dragonlance
• Chaos (Kinnikuman), a major character in the manga series Kinnikuman Nisei: Ultimate Choujin Tag Arc
• Chaos (performer), performer in Pin Up Girls burlesque-cabaret company, certified yoga instructor
• Chaos (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling alliance
• Chaos (Sesame Park character), a fictional character from the TV show Sesame Park
• Chaos (Sailor Moon), a major enemy in the Sailor Moon manga, and the final enemy in the Sailor Moon anime
• Chaos (Warhammer), in the Warhammer fantasy games, a force representing the antithesis of civilization
• Chaos, a fictional tenth planet of the solar system in Exosquad
• Chaos, the king of the old ones in Anthony Horowitz's The Power of Five
• Chaos, a series of cards in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game
• Choas, the trading card game from the King of Cards
• Chaos! Comics, a cult comic book producer and publisher

  Other uses

• Chaos in society, is Civil disorder
• Chaos, a cultural festival of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
• Lawlessness (disambiguation), a lack of laws or law enforcement
• A month in the Discordian calendar
• Operation CHAOS, a domestic espionage project conducted by the CIA
• Plural of the surname Chao
• Rans S-9 Chaos, an aerobatic aircraft

  See also

• CHAOS (disambiguation)
• KAOS (disambiguation)
• K-os (born 1972), Canadian musician
• XaoS, an interactive fractal zoomer program
• Courts of Chaos, a location in The Chronicles of Amber
• Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, a video game

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