- 1碎形（台灣用語；中國大陸多說「分形」）
A fractal is a pattern that keeps the same kind of shape when you look closer and closer. You repeat a shape, then make smaller copies, then smaller copies of those, again and again. A , a , or a ragged coastline is often called fractal because a little piece looks like the whole. Computers are very good at drawing them, so many people first meet fractals as bright swirling pictures on a screen — though actually the idea is mathematical, not just computer art. The name comes from a Latin word for “broken,” because you keep breaking the pattern into smaller bits and the edge is never a simple smooth line. You can say a fractal (the thing) or a fractal pattern (the adjective). Scientists care about the repeating rule; posters care about the pretty picture. Both uses are real.
組成From French fractal, from Latin fractus, “broken,” the past form of frangō, “I break / I fragment.”
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fractalnoun/ˈfɹæk.təl/
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mathematicssciencesA 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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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[…]
fractaladj/ˈfɹæk.təl/
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mathematicssciencesHaving 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.
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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.
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