fractus

[′frak·təs]

(meteorology)

A cloud species in which the cloud elements are irregular but generally small in size, and which presents a ragged, shredded appearance, as if torn; these characteristics change ceaselessly and often rapidly.

fractus

Clouds in the form of irregular and ragged shreds. The term applies to stratus and cumulus clouds. Fracto is used as a prefix for cloud forms to indicate that clouds are broken into irregular fragments.

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It looks to me to be some form of cumulus fractus cloud.

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The adjectival form is fractus, which Mandelbrot says led him to fractal.

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Mandelbrot created the term fractal from the Latin adjective fractus, meaning "broken," because it connoted the idea of a fracture (like a bifurcation point) and also described the fractional dimension (between the integer first, second, or third dimensions) of the fractal (Gleick 1987, 98).

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O termo fractal, cunhado pelo matematico Mandelbrot (1982), vem do adjetivo fractus, do verbo frangere que significa quebrar, fraturar e e usado para designar dimensoes nao inteiras.

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El termino proviene del latin fractus, que significa 'interrumpido o irregular'.

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Root: The Latin word frangere, meaning "to break," and its form fractus give us the roots frag and fract.