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behavior
  رفتار   
raftâr (#)

Fr.: comportement   

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.

chaotic behavior
  رفتار ِ ورشونگین   
raftâr-e varšungin

Fr.: comportement chaotique   

The behavior of a → chaotic system.

chaotic; → behavior.

collective behavior
  رفتار ِ گرد‌آمدی   
raftâr-e gerdâmadi

Fr.: comportement collectif   

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.