Gestalt vs Fractal - What's the difference?
gestalt | fractal |
A collection of physical, biological, psychological or symbolic elements that creates a whole, unified concept or pattern which is other than the sum of its parts, due to the relationships between the parts (of a character, personality, entity, or being)
:* This biography is the first one to consider fully the writer's gestalt .
:* The clusters of behavioral gestalten'''... the probability factors... the subtypes of crimes... the constellations of criminal subtypes...'' — Jay Kirk, "Watching the Detectives", Harpers Magazine, Vol. 307, Iss. 1839; pg. 61, Aug, ' 2003
shape, form
:* Mary did not approve of the Eleanor gestalt'''. "I been to Woonsocket S.D., Eleanor McGovern's hometown," she said, "and nobody there? I mean nobody? dresses like that."'' — John L Hess and Karen Hess, "The Taste of America", Grossman, New York, ' 1977
:* ... depending on the kinds of speech children hear directed to them, they may first learn unanalyzed "gestalts'''" (e.g., social expressions like "What's that?" uttered as a single unit) instead of learning single words that are then freely recombined ...''— Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, "The Origins of Grammar", The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, ' 1996
:* So different were our appearances and approaches and general gestalts''' that we had something of an epic rivalry from '74 through '77.'' — David Foster Wallace, "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again", Boston: Little, Brown and Co., Edition: 1st Back Bay ed., ' 1998
(mathematics) A mathematical set that has a non-integer and constant Hausdorff dimension; a geometric figure that is self-similar at all scales.
(figurative) An object, system, or idea that exhibits a fractal-like property.
* 1999 , John J. McGonagle, Carolyn M. Vella, The Internet Age of Competitive Intelligence , ISBN 1567202047.
(mathematics) Having the form of a fractal.
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(figurative) Exhibiting a fractal-like property.
* 2007 , Vincent Spina, "Three Central American writers: alone between two cultures" in Carlota Caulfield, Darién J. Davis (eds) Companion to United States Latino Literatures , ISBN 185566139X.
As nouns the difference between gestalt and fractal
is that gestalt is a collection of physical, biological, psychological or symbolic elements that creates a whole, unified concept or pattern which is other than the sum of its parts, due to the relationships between the parts (of a character, personality, entity, or being while fractal is a mathematical set that has a non-integer and constant Hausdorff dimension; a geometric figure that is self-similar at all scales.As an adjective fractal is
having the form of a fractal.gestalt
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(wikipedia gestalt)Alternative forms
* GestaltNoun
(en-noun)Derived terms
* gestaltic * gestalting * gestalt psychology * Gestalt therapyfractal
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Noun
(en noun)- In essence, you are assuming that each segment of a company is a fractal of the whole
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* fractal dimension * multifractalAdjective
, a vegetable related to broccoli and cauliflower made up of mini-spirals in fractal formation (-)- A fractal situation emerges in this way then: the consequences of Ulysses' decision to abandon Calypso are not entirely predictable.
