atrator

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

 
  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /a.tɾaˈtoʁ/ [a.tɾaˈtoh]
    • (São Paulo) IPA(key): /a.tɾaˈtoɾ/
    • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /a.tɾaˈtoʁ/ [a.tɾaˈtoχ]
    • (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /a.tɾaˈtoɻ/
 
  • (Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.tɾaˈtoɾ/
    • (Southern Portugal) IPA(key): /ɐ.tɾaˈto.ɾi/

  • Hyphenation: a‧tra‧tor

Adjective

atrator (feminine atratora, masculine plural atratores, feminine plural atratoras)

  1. attractive (having the quality of attracting by inherent force)
    Synonym: atrativo

Noun

atrator m (plural atratores)

  1. attractor (something that attracts)
  2. (physics, mathematics) attractor (set of points or states to which a dynamical system evolves after a long enough time)
    Antonym: repulsor
  3. (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.
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