Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

scalebound

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.17 in modern English

Syllables: scale-bound
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

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.

Etymology

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

Antonyms

scaling

Questions

What does scalebound mean?: 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.
Where does scalebound come from?: From scale + bound, coined by the mathematician Benoit Mandelbrot in a 1981 paper.

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