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fractal - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

English

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Noun

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 arbitrarily small scales and thus has infinite complexity.
• (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.
  • ✤ In essence, you are assuming that each segment of a company is a fractal of the whole […]¹

Adjective

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fractal (not comparable)

• (mathematics) 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.²
• (by extension, sometimes figurative) 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.³
  • 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:

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA: /ˈfɹæk.təl/
• Audio (US): 🔊
• Audio (Australian): 🔊
• Rhymes: -æktəl

Printed 2026-06-28.

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Footnotes

1. 1999, John J. McGonagle, Carolyn M. Vella, The Internet Age of Competitive Intelligence, →ISBN: ↩

2. 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) ‎${}^{[1]}$: ↩

3. 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: ↩

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