fractal
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Julia_set_%28highres_01%29.jpg/220px-Julia_set_%28highres_01%29.jpg)
Etymology
[edit]From French fractal, from Latin fractus (“broken”), perfect passive participle of frangō (“break, fragment”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fractal (plural fractals)
- (mathematics) A mathematical set that has a non-integer and constant Hausdorff dimension, corresponding to a geometric figure or object that is self-similar at all scales and thus has infinite complexity.
- (by extension, sometimes figuratively) An object, system, or idea that exhibits a fractal-like property, especially the property of self-similarity at numerous but not infinitely many scales.
- 1999, John J. McGonagle, Carolyn M. Vella, The Internet Age of Competitive Intelligence, →ISBN:
- In essence, you are assuming that each segment of a company is a fractal of the whole […]
Hyponyms
[edit]- See also Thesaurus:fractal
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]mathematical figure that is self-similar at all scales
|
anything exhibiting self-similarity at many scales
|
Adjective
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/Romanesco_broccoli_%281%29.jpg/220px-Romanesco_broccoli_%281%29.jpg)
fractal (not comparable)
- (mathematics) Having the form of a fractal; having to do with fractals.
- 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)[1]:
- 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.
- (by extension, sometimes figurative) Exhibiting a fractal-like property.
- 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:
- A fractal situation emerges in this way then: the consequences of Ulysses' decision to abandon Calypso are not entirely predictable.
- 2020, Frank E. Zachos, Les Christidis, Stephen Garnett, “The Tree of Life, however, is an encaptic system displaying a nested hierarchy with a fractal pattern (lineages within lineages).”, in Mammalia, volume 84, number 1, page 2:
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]having the form of a fractal
|
See also
[edit]fractal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Mandelbrot set
- Julia set
Anagrams
[edit]Catalan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fractal f (plural fractals)
Adjective
[edit]fractal m or f (masculine and feminine plural fractals)
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Coined by Benoît Mandelbrot in 1975, from Latin fractus + -al.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]fractal (feminine fractale, masculine plural fractals or fractaux, feminine plural fractales)
Noun
[edit]fractal m (plural fractals or fractaux)
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- fratal (Portugal, nonstandard)
Pronunciation
[edit]
Noun
[edit]fractal m (plural fractais)
- (mathematics) fractal (self-similar geometric figure)
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fractal m (plural fractales)
Adjective
[edit]fractal m or f (masculine and feminine plural fractales)
Further reading
[edit]- “fractal”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- English terms derived from French
- English terms derived from Latin
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/æktəl
- Rhymes:English/æktəl/2 syllables
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Mathematics
- English terms with quotations
- English adjectives
- English uncomparable adjectives
- en:Fractals
- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Catalan/al
- Rhymes:Catalan/al/2 syllables
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan feminine nouns with no feminine ending
- Catalan feminine nouns
- Catalan adjectives
- Catalan epicene adjectives
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms suffixed with -al
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French adjectives
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French masculine nouns
- French terms with rare senses
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese 3-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Portuguese/al
- Rhymes:Portuguese/al/2 syllables
- Rhymes:Portuguese/aw
- Rhymes:Portuguese/aw/2 syllables
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- pt:Mathematics
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/al
- Rhymes:Spanish/al/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish adjectives
- Spanish epicene adjectives
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *bʰreg-