scalebound

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. 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.

Pronunciation

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Word forms

scalebound

Etymology

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

Antonyms

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