An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
English-French-Persian

Manner of behaving or acting.

M.E. behavour, from behaven "to behave," altered by model havour, from O.Fr. avoir "to have."

Raftâr "behavior, walking, going," from raft past tense stem of raftan "to go, walk, proceed" (present tense stem row-, Mid.Pers. raftan, raw-, Proto-Iranian *rab/f- "to go; to attack") + -âr prefix forming action noun.

The behavior of a → chaotic system.

→ chaotic; → behavior.

1) The whole behavior of a system of many interacting components, which differs from that of the individual components. Some classical examples are the → many-body problem, → phase transition, most of thermodynamic phenomena, collective oscillations occurring in solids, etc. Physics dealt with collective behavior much earlier than the term collective behavior was even coined.
2) Sociology: The more or less unpredictable act of people when being in group, which is totally different from the behavior they would have if acted individually.
3) Biology: A large number of group phenomena such as pattern formation, self organization, trail formation, and synchronization seen among many living creatures.

→ collective; → behavior.