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語源

From French fractal, from Latin fractus (“broken”), perfect passive participle of frangō (“break, fragment”).

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) IPA: /ˈfɹæk.təl/
• 韻: -æktəl

名詞

fractal (plural fractals)

1. (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 arbitrarily small scales and thus has infinite complexity.
2. (by extension) 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.
   • 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 […]

下位語

• See also Thesaurus:fractal

派生語

形容詞

fractal (not comparable)

1. (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)‎:

     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.

2. (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:

派生語

• fractal antenna
• fractal dimension
• fractal flame
• fractal response time

派生語

参考

• fractal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Mandelbrot set
• Julia set

アナグラム

• flatcar