Chaos

Chaos may refer to any state of confusion or disorder, it may also refer to:

• Lawlessness (disambiguation), a lack of laws or law enforcement
• Anarchy, lawlessness or a stateless society

Mythology, philosophy, and religion

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

Science and mathematics

• Randomness, a lack of intelligible pattern or combination
• Chaos theory, a branch of mathematics and physics that deals with the behavior of certain nonlinear dynamic systems
  • Chaos (journal), a scientific journal devoted to nonlinear 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

Books

• Chaos, novel by Alexander Shirvanzade
• Chaos, short title of a 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

Films

• Kaos (film), titled Chaos in American release, a 1984 Italian film 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 (2008 film), a Hong Kong film
• Le Chaos, a 2007 Arabic-language film by Egyptian directors Youssef Chahine and Khaled Youssef

TV

• CHAOS (TV series), a 2011 American television series airing on CBS
• KAOS (Get Smart), the criminal spy agency in the television series Get Smart

Video games

• Chaos, video game character, from Battle Arena Toshinden
• Chaos, video game character, from Sonic the Hedgehog
• Chaos, video game character, from Final Fantasy
• Chaos, fictional energy from Fabula Nova Crystallis Final Fantasy
• Chaos, video game character from Loom
• Chaos (video game), a 1985 computer game
• Chaos, video game character from Xenosaga, see list of Xenosaga characters

Other entertainment

• Chaos (Dragonlance), novel character from Dragonlance
• Chaos (Kinnikuman), comic book character from 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), 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), chaos in the Warhammer fantasy games
• 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

Music

Albums

• Chaos (Paul Bley album)
• Chaos, 2010 album of Jaycee Chan

Songs

• "Chaos", song by Mutemath from their self-titled debut album
• "Chaos", song by Skold from Skold
• "Chaos", song on the album Psyence Fiction by UNKLE
• "Chaos", song on the album A Fierce Pancake by Stump
• Chaos A.D., 1993 album and song from Sepultura

Other uses

• Chaos, a cultural festival of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
• 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