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"FRACTALS" is a plural of: fractal. |
Date "FRACTALS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references) |
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Health | Patterns (real or mathematical) which look similar at different scales, for example the network of airways in the lung which shows similar branching patterns at progressively higher magnifications. Natural fractals are self-similar across a finite range of scales while mathematical fractals are the same across an infinite range. Many natural, including biological, structures are fractal (or fractal-like). Fractals are related to "chaos" (see nonlinear dynamics) in that chaotic processes can produce fractal structures in nature, and appropriate representations of chaotic processes usually reveal self-similarity over time. (references) |
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Crosswords: FRACTALS |
| English words defined with "FRACTALS": Benoit Mandelbrot ♦ Mandelbrot. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "FRACTALS": demoeffect, domain theory ♦ fractal compression ♦ Iterated Function System ♦ Nonlinear Dynamics, number-crunching. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Fractals (1991) | |
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| "FRACTALS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 80.00% of the time. "FRACTALS" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 80% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Noun (proper) | 20% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "FRACTALS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | fraktalteori (fractals theory, theory of fractals). (various references) | |
Dutch | fractalentheorie (theory of fractals), theorie der fractalen (fractals theory, theory of fractals). (various references) | |
French | théorie des fractales (fractals theory, theory of fractals). (various references) | |
German | Fraktaltheorie (fractals theory, theory of fractals), Theorie der "Fractals" (fractals theory, theory of fractals). (various references) | |
Italian | teoria dei frattali (fractals theory, theory of fractals). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | actalsfray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | teoria das fractais (theory of fractals). (various references) | |
Spanish | teoría de los fractales (fractals theory, theory of fractals). (various references) | |
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Misspellings | |
"FRACTALS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: farctal, farctus, fractail, fractally, fractels, fractl, fractle, fractles, fractuals, fractus. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: flatcars. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-f-l-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: flatcar, fractal. | |
-2 letters: altars, astral, carats, craals, crafts, fracas, lascar, rascal, ratals, sacral, scalar, talars, tarsal. | |
-3 letters: afars, alfas, altar, artal, atlas, calfs, carat, carls, carts, clast, craal, craft, facts, farls, fatal, flats, frats, rafts, ratal, sacra, scarf, scart, talar, talas, talcs. | |
-4 letters: aals, acta, acts, afar, alar, alas, alfa, alts, arcs, arfs, arts. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-f-l-r-s-t" | |
+2 letters: afterclaps, factorials. | |
+3 letters: craftsmanly, defalcators, malefactors. | |
+4 letters: facilitators, forecastable. | |
+5 letters: calefactories, confabulators, craftsmanlike, farcicalities, parfocalities. | |
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