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scalebound

scalebound adjective: 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.

Adjective

scalebound (not comparable)

  1. 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.

Antonyms of scalebound

Origin of scalebound

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

Questions about scalebound

What does scalebound mean?
Scalebound means 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.
What part of speech is scalebound?
Scalebound is an adjective.

Words near scalebound in the dictionary

  1. scalebeams
  2. scaleboard
  3. scaleboard plane
  4. scaleboard planes
  5. scaleboards
  6. scalebound
  7. scaled
  8. scaled back
  9. scaled copies
  10. scaled copy
  11. scaled dove

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