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fractal en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
From French fractal, from Latin fractus (“broken”), perfect passive participle of frangō (“break, fragment”).
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Having the form of a fractal; having to do with fractals.
Romanesco was my gateway cauli and I've never stopped growing it. Not a variety as much as its own thing, Romanesco is a cauliflower to the French, a calabrese to the Italians. […] Visually, it may be the most remarkable thing you can grow: it is made up of lime-green mini-spirals that coil around themselves in fractal formation.
2015 January 26, Mark Diacono, “How to grow and cook cauliflower, 2015's trendiest veg: Tricky to grow, boring to boil ... so why is the outmoded cauliflower back at the culinary cutting edge? [print version: Cauliflower power, 24 January 2015, pp. G1 & G3]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Gardening):
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(broadly, figuratively, not-comparable, sometimes) Exhibiting a fractal-like property.
A fractal situation emerges in this way then: the consequences of Ulysses' decision to abandon Calypso are not entirely predictable.
2007, Vincent Spina, “Three Central American writers: alone between two cultures”, in Carlota Caulfield, Darién J. Davis, editors, Companion to United States Latino Literatures, →ISBN:
Deriveds
fractality (derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)) · fractalization (derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)) · thermofractal (derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)) · fractal response time · fractal dimension · fractal antenna · fracton (derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)) · fractalize (derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)) · subfractal (derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)) · fractally (derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)) · semifractal (derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)) · fractal geometry · fractal flame · nonfractal (derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)) · pseudofractal (derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)) · monofractal (derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)) · fractalness (derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)) · superfractal (derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)) · nanofractal (derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting)) · fractalist (derived from noun or adjective (needs sorting))
Relateds
Julia set · Mandelbrot set
Translations (15)
pl fraktalny (having the form of a fractal) · ro fractal (having the form of a fractal) · fi fraktaalinen (having the form of a fractal) · el μορφοκλασματικός (having the form of a fractal) · ja フラクタルの (having the form of a fractal) · ru фрактальный (having the form of a fractal) · no fraktal (having the form of a fractal) · es fractal (having the form of a fractal) · it frattale (having the form of a fractal) · de fraktal (having the form of a fractal) · ca fractal (having the form of a fractal) · ko 프랙탈의 (having the form of a fractal) · cs fraktální (having the form of a fractal) · fr fractal (having the form of a fractal) · cmn 分形的 (having the form of a fractal)
fractal en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From French fractal, from Latin fractus (“broken”), perfect passive participle of frangō (“break, fragment”).
Meanings
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A mathematical set that has a non-integer and constant Hausdorff dimension, corresponding to a geometric figure or object that is self-similar at arbitrarily small scales and thus has infinite complexity.
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(broadly) An object, system, or idea that exhibits a fractal-like property, such as the property of self-similarity at numerous but not infinitely many scales.
In essence, you are assuming that each segment of a company is a fractal of the whole[…]
1999, John J. McGonagle, Carolyn M. Vella, The Internet Age of Competitive Intelligence, →ISBN:
Forms
Deriveds
fractal dimension · multifractal · ice fractal · curlicue fractal · fractalesque
Hypernyms
shape · figure
Hyponyms
Koch snowflake · Sierpinski triangle · Julia set · Mandelbrot set · Menger sponge
Synonyms
fractal
Translations (37)
sv fraktal (anything exhibiting self-similarity at many scales) · sv fraktal (mathematical figure that is self-similar at all scales) · mk фракта́л (mathematical figure that is self-similar at all scales) · cmn 碎形 (mathematical figure that is self-similar at all scales) · cmn 殘形 /残形 (mathematical figure that is self-similar at all scales) · pl fraktal (mathematical figure that is self-similar at all scales) · hu fraktál (anything exhibiting self-similarity at many scales) · fi fraktaali (mathematical figure that is self-similar at all scales) · eo fraktalo (anything exhibiting self-similarity at many scales) · mk фракта́л (anything exhibiting self-similarity at many scales) · de Fraktal (mathematical figure that is self-similar at all scales) · no fraktal (mathematical figure that is self-similar at all scales) · fr fractale (mathematical figure that is self-similar at all scales) · es fractal (anything exhibiting self-similarity at many scales) · el μορφόκλασμα (anything exhibiting self-similarity at many scales) · ca fractal (anything exhibiting self-similarity at many scales) · fr fractal (mathematical figure that is self-similar at all scales) · ca fractal (mathematical figure that is self-similar at all scales) · ru фрактал (mathematical figure that is self-similar at all scales) · cs fraktál (mathematical figure that is self-similar at all scales) · pt fractal (anything exhibiting self-similarity at many scales) · el μορφόκλασμα (mathematical figure that is self-similar at all scales) · it frattale (mathematical figure that is self-similar at all scales) · cmn 分形 (mathematical figure that is self-similar at all scales) · ko 프랙탈 (mathematical figure that is self-similar at all scales) · is brotamynd (mathematical figure that is self-similar at all scales) · hy ֆրակտալ (mathematical figure that is self-similar at all scales) · hu fraktál (mathematical figure that is self-similar at all scales) · pt fractal (mathematical figure that is self-similar at all scales) · ja フラクタル (mathematical figure that is self-similar at all scales) · no fraktal (anything exhibiting self-similarity at many scales) · fi fraktaali (anything exhibiting self-similarity at many scales) · es fractal (mathematical figure that is self-similar at all scales) · de Fraktal (anything exhibiting self-similarity at many scales) · fa برخال (mathematical figure that is self-similar at all scales) · it frattale (anything exhibiting self-similarity at many scales) · cs fraktál (anything exhibiting self-similarity at many scales)