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Penrose staircase

Penrose staircase noun: synonym of Penrose stairs.

Noun

Penrose staircase (plural Penrose staircases)

  1. Synonym of Penrose stairs.
    • Can you make a fractal equivalent of the “Auditory Penrose Staircase,” the illusion of a steadily descending tone, by zooming in on a fractal as it branches?1984 February, Monte Davis, “Profile of Benoit B. Mandelbrot”, in Omni, →ISSN, page 9
    • They are the inventors of the famous "Penrose staircase" that goes round and round without getting higher; Escher depicted it in his lithograph "Ascending and Descending."1989, Martin Gardner, Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers: ...And the Return of Dr. Matrix, New York: Freeman, →ISBN, →OL
    Synonyms:
    Penrose stairs

Synonyms of Penrose staircase

Forms of Penrose staircase

pluralPenrose staircases

Questions about Penrose staircase

What does Penrose staircase mean?
Penrose staircase means synonym of Penrose stairs.
What part of speech is Penrose staircase?
Penrose staircase is a noun.
What is the plural of Penrose staircase?
The plural of Penrose staircase is Penrose staircases.

Words near Penrose staircase in the dictionary

  1. Penrose diagrams
  2. Penrose drain
  3. Penrose drains
  4. Penrose mechanism
  5. Penrose process
  6. Penrose staircase
  7. Penrose staircases
  8. Penrose stairs
  9. Penrose steps
  10. Penrose transform
  11. Penrose transforms

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