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Definition of 'fractal'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) fractal
a geometrical structure that has a regular or an uneven shape repeated over all scales of measurement and that has a dimension

Etymology: (< F fractale < L frāct(us) broken, uneven; term introduced by French mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot (born 1924) in 1975)

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Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) fractal
(mathematics) a geometric pattern that is repeated at every scale and so cannot be represented by classical geometry

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