scalebound

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English

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Etymology

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scale +‎ bound, coined by the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot in a 1981 paper.

Adjective

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scalebound (not comparable)

  1. (geometry) Of an object: for which characteristic elements of scale, such as length and width, are few in number and each with a clearly distinct size.

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