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devil's staircase

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.29 in modern English

Syllables
dev-il's s-tair-case
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of Cantor function; a type of monotonic increasing function.

Informal

name

A waterfall in Wassen Creek, Devil’s Staircase Wilderness, Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon, United States; a multi-tiered low cascading waterfall.

name

Ellipsis of Devil's Staircase Wilderness: a geographic region of Siuslaw National Forest, Oregon, United States, ; a protected 30,000 acre old-growth forest region in the national forest, containing the Devil's Staircase waterfall.

Usage

Inflected Forms

devil's staircases (plural)

Synonyms

Cantor function Wassen Creek watefall Devil's Staircase Wilderness

Questions

What does devil's staircase mean?
Synonym of Cantor function; a type of monotonic increasing function.

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