单词 | self-similarity |
释义 | self-similarityn. The state or condition of being self-similar (in various senses; now chiefly in sense 2b).rare before the mid-twentieth century. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > uniformity > [noun] evenlinesseOE evennessa1398 equality1398 uniformity?a1475 equalness1545 uniformness1579 coherence1588 constancy1593 identity1611 oneness1611 holdinga1616 homogeneity1625 homogeny1626 unity1638 equiformity1646 self-consistencya1652 invariableness1654 homogeneousness1658 univocacy1658 sameness1743 consistency1787 self-similarity1847 consistence1850 flushnessa1878 homogenization1938 1847 J. J. G. Wilkinson tr. E. Swedenborg Outl. Philos. Argument Infinite i. 75 The same self-similarity [L. simile] cannot exist in the ultimate derivatives. 1882 J. Martineau Study Spinoza i. 121 From the defined circumference of a circle we learn its uniform self-similarity, possessed by no other curve. 1956 Jrnl. Philos. 53 88 Such reflective self-similarity can go on indefinitely... The baking-powder can on which is printed the picture of the baking-powder can, and so on, makes the point graphic. 1978 Sci. Amer. Apr. 22/2 The fractals that occur in nature—coastlines, rivers, trees, star clustering, clouds and so on—are so irregular that their self-similarity..must be treated statistically. 2012 N. N. Taleb Antifragile vi. xx. 325 ‘Fractal’ entails both jaggedness and a form of self-similarity in things. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1847 |
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