"Sierpinski carpet" meaning in English

See Sierpinski carpet in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: Sierpinski carpets [plural]
Etymology: First described by Wacław Sierpiński in 1916. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Sierpinski carpet (plural Sierpinski carpets)
  1. (mathematics) A plane fractal, a generalization of the Cantor set to two dimensions, formed by repeated subdivision of a square. Wikipedia link: Sierpinski carpet Categories (topical): Mathematics
    Sense id: en-Sierpinski_carpet-en-noun--HfVcYXZ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Fractals Topics: mathematics, sciences

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_text": "First described by Wacław Sierpiński in 1916.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Sierpinski carpets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Sierpinski carpet (plural Sierpinski carpets)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Fractals",
          "orig": "en:Fractals",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Mathematics",
          "orig": "en:Mathematics",
          "parents": [
            "Formal sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A plane fractal, a generalization of the Cantor set to two dimensions, formed by repeated subdivision of a square."
      ],
      "id": "en-Sierpinski_carpet-en-noun--HfVcYXZ",
      "links": [
        [
          "mathematics",
          "mathematics"
        ],
        [
          "plane",
          "plane"
        ],
        [
          "fractal",
          "fractal"
        ],
        [
          "generalization",
          "generalization"
        ],
        [
          "Cantor set",
          "Cantor set"
        ],
        [
          "dimension",
          "dimension"
        ],
        [
          "subdivision",
          "subdivision"
        ],
        [
          "square",
          "square"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mathematics) A plane fractal, a generalization of the Cantor set to two dimensions, formed by repeated subdivision of a square."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "mathematics",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Sierpinski carpet"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Sierpinski carpet"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "First described by Wacław Sierpiński in 1916.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Sierpinski carpets",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Sierpinski carpet (plural Sierpinski carpets)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English eponyms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "en:Fractals",
        "en:Mathematics"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A plane fractal, a generalization of the Cantor set to two dimensions, formed by repeated subdivision of a square."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "mathematics",
          "mathematics"
        ],
        [
          "plane",
          "plane"
        ],
        [
          "fractal",
          "fractal"
        ],
        [
          "generalization",
          "generalization"
        ],
        [
          "Cantor set",
          "Cantor set"
        ],
        [
          "dimension",
          "dimension"
        ],
        [
          "subdivision",
          "subdivision"
        ],
        [
          "square",
          "square"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(mathematics) A plane fractal, a generalization of the Cantor set to two dimensions, formed by repeated subdivision of a square."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "mathematics",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Sierpinski carpet"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Sierpinski carpet"
}

Download raw JSONL data for Sierpinski carpet meaning in English (1.2kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-31 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (bcd5c38 and 9dbd323). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.