atrator

== Portuguese == === Alternative forms === atractor (pre-1990 spelling) attractor (pre-standardization spelling) === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: a‧tra‧tor === Adjective === atrator (feminine atratora, masculine plural atratores, feminine plural atratoras) attractive (having the quality of attracting by inherent force) Synonym: atrativo === Noun === atrator m (plural atratores) attractor (something that attracts) (physics, mathematics) attractor (set of points or states to which a dynamical system evolves after a long enough time) Antonym: repulsor (linguistics) In Portuguese linguistics, a set of words that attract a clitic pronoun towards themselves, from an original postclitic position (chiefly in European Portuguese). Palavras como “não” e “nunca” são atratores. ― Words such as “not” and “never” attract the pronoun. === Further reading === “atrator”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026