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: any of various extremely irregular curves or shapes for which any suitably chosen part is similar in shape to a given larger or smaller part when magnified or reduced to the same size
fractal adjective
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This term was coined in 1975 to describe shapes that seem to exist at both the small-scale and large-scale levels in the same natural object. Fractals can be seen in snowflakes, in which the microscopic crystals that make up a flake look much like the flake itself. They can also be seen in tree bark and in broccoli buds. Coastlines often represent fractals as well, being highly uneven at both a large scale and a very small scale. Fractal geometry has been important in many fields, including astronomy, physical chemistry, and fluid mechanics. And even some artists are benefiting, creating beautiful and interesting abstract designs by means of fractals.
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Babies can be mommies to their dolls, and women can be dolls in movies, which makes the director into the mommy, and so on—it’s an infinite fractal of relationality, of care. 
Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 7 Jan. 2022 Instead, North America’s west coast appears to have been a complex fractal of microenvironments, including some ice-free zones along the mainland, and even more on offshore islands, which were outside the ice sheet’s reach. Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2021 The segment lost me when everything started getting echo-y and fractal. Bethy Squires, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2021 But over the spring, as the news cycle unfurled fresh hell by the minute like a fractal of horrors, I was forced to accept that every two or three functional days would be followed by a day of recovery. Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2020 The special activities, already used by teachers, let users visit the International Space Station, tour landmarks in the Nation's Capital, learn to code with a robot, explore marine biology and explore 3-D fractals. Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2020 According to the space agency, the art form -- which is called fractals -- uses mathematical formulas to create art with an infinite variety of form, detail, color and light. Fox News, 7 Mar. 2020 Students will gain a greater understanding of biology, forensics, and epidemiology, and artists intrigued by fractal geometry can find new shapes to inform their designs. Popular Science, 15 Mar. 2020 Animal faces and eyes flash towards the audience, intermixed with galaxies and natural occurring patterns like the spiral fractal of a shell or the eye of a storm, to show the connectedness of all things. Valerie Lee, Billboard, 4 Dec. 2019 See More
Jo Livingstone, The New Republic, 7 Jan. 2022 Instead, North America’s west coast appears to have been a complex fractal of microenvironments, including some ice-free zones along the mainland, and even more on offshore islands, which were outside the ice sheet’s reach. Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2021 The segment lost me when everything started getting echo-y and fractal. Bethy Squires, Vulture, 20 Aug. 2021 But over the spring, as the news cycle unfurled fresh hell by the minute like a fractal of horrors, I was forced to accept that every two or three functional days would be followed by a day of recovery. Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2020 The special activities, already used by teachers, let users visit the International Space Station, tour landmarks in the Nation's Capital, learn to code with a robot, explore marine biology and explore 3-D fractals. Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2020 According to the space agency, the art form -- which is called fractals -- uses mathematical formulas to create art with an infinite variety of form, detail, color and light. Fox News, 7 Mar. 2020 Students will gain a greater understanding of biology, forensics, and epidemiology, and artists intrigued by fractal geometry can find new shapes to inform their designs. Popular Science, 15 Mar. 2020 Animal faces and eyes flash towards the audience, intermixed with galaxies and natural occurring patterns like the spiral fractal of a shell or the eye of a storm, to show the connectedness of all things. Valerie Lee, Billboard, 4 Dec. 2019 See More Word History
Etymology
borrowed from French fractal (adjective), fractale (noun), from Latin frāctus (past participle of frangere "to break, shatter") + French -al -al entry 1, -ale -al entry 2 — more at break entry 1
First Known Use
1975, in the meaning defined above
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