Etymology

scalebound

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

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

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