butterfly effect vs event

event vs butterfly effect

butterfly effect and event both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
butterfly effect	Yes	No	No	No
event	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, event is a hypernym of butterfly effect; that is, event is a word with a broader meaning than butterfly effect:

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
event: a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

Other hypernyms of butterfly effect include consequence, effect, issue, outcome, result, upshot.

butterfly effect (noun)	event (noun)
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	something that happens at a given place and time
	a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory
	a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon
	a special set of circumstances

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