Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

minkowski-bouligand dimension

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: minkowski-bouli-gand di-men-sion
IPA

47

Scrabble Score

27

Letters

5

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A way of determining the fractal dimension of a set in a Euclidean space, or more generally in a metric space. It may be visualized by imagining the fractal lying on an evenly-spaced grid and counting how many boxes are required to cover the set. The dimension is then calculated by seeing how this number changes as the grid is made finer.

Etymology

Named after the Polish mathematician Hermann Minkowski and the French mathematician Georges Bouligand.

Inflected Forms

Minkowski-Bouligand dimensions (plural)

Synonyms

box-counting dimension Minkowski dimension

Questions

What does minkowski-bouligand dimension mean?: A way of determining the fractal dimension of a set in a Euclidean space, or more generally in a metric space. It may be visualized by imagining the fractal lying on an evenly-spaced grid and counting how many boxes are required to cover the set. The dimension is then calculated by seeing how this number changes as the grid is made finer.
Where does minkowski-bouligand dimension come from?: Named after the Polish mathematician Hermann Minkowski and the French mathematician Georges Bouligand.

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