n (physics) a point in the ideal multidimensional phase space that is used to describe a system toward which the system tends to evolve regardless of the starting conditions of the system
n a characteristic that provides pleasure and attracts
Jake and Dinos Chapman in Independent Jake said at the time: "McDonald's is an attracter for so many different moral discourses on capitalism which are incredibly crude and funny - like the whole anti-globalisation thing, which is essentially a luxury of the West."