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Recent Examples of aperiodic Quanta also covered another new kind of quantum error-correcting code in February, this one built out of aperiodic tilings — sets of shapes that combine in ways that never repeat. Bill Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 19 Dec. 2024 In particular, the scientists focused on non-rhythmic, or aperiodic, brain activity. Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 27 Nov. 2024 So, very much not an aperiodic monotile of the plane, but an aperiodic monotile of an incredibly high-dimensional space. Quanta Magazine, 3 July 2024 To me, that legitimizes the hat as a true aperiodic monotile, although spectres are still interesting for their ability to avoid reflections. Aaron Shattuck, Scientific American, 16 Apr. 2024 Interest turned into fascination when Boyle mentioned a special property of aperiodic tilings: local indistinguishability. Ben Brubaker, WIRED, 17 Mar. 2024 Landmark results in Ramsey theory and a remarkably simple aperiodic tile capped a year of mathematical delight and discovery. Quanta Magazine, 22 Dec. 2023 The question of whether an aperiodic monotile exists has been called the einstein problem. Craig S. Kaplan, Scientific American, 14 Dec. 2023 Although Berger and others were able to bring down the size of these aperiodic sets significantly, in the mid-1970s Roger Penrose captured the world’s attention by discovering very small sets of his own aperiodic tiles. Quanta Magazine, 30 Oct. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aperiodic
Adjective
  • But the absence of The Rock—the catalyst of this entire turn—throughout the entire build of WrestleMania, mixed with the sporadic appearances from Cena, hurt the storytelling of what could have been a deeply complex villain.
    Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • Justin Turner has been among those helping Workman navigate his first experience with life in the big leagues and sporadic playing time.
    LaMond Pope, Chicago Tribune, 17 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Consistency turns occasional readers into followers who can predict your stance on related issues.
    Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Those posts often highlight the overconfident way the AI Overview frames its idiomatic explanations and occasional problems with the model confabulating sources that don't exist.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 29 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Based on the research, participants lost about 7 to 11 pounds over 10 weeks while intermittent fasting.18 Remember, fad diets are not healthy for you, especially long term.
    Sohaib Imtiaz, Verywell Health, 23 Apr. 2025
  • The pair are searching for the source of a particular beep: the intermittent ping that a smoke alarm makes when its battery is running low.
    Kirk Johnson, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Current law, however, is discontinuous.
    Felix Salmon, Axios, 28 Mar. 2025
  • The fossil record is discontinuous at the Atapuerca site and in Western Europe as a whole, indicating that there were likely long periods without human presence.
    Evan Bush, NBC News, 12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Several conditions may cause sudden vision loss, such as an eye injury.
    Heidi Cope, Health, 19 Apr. 2025
  • All of a sudden, something that was a huge source of joy in my grandparents’ life became a challenge.
    Katie Akin, Southern Living, 18 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • But Trump’s erratic purge of the federal workforce has undermined those very efforts.
    Brian Bennett, Time, 28 Apr. 2025
  • In the meantime, crowds braved erratic weather for a festive opening weekend, and even early on a Monday morning, neighbors had already begun to converge, attracted by the new sod, tender trees, and open plaza that makes this 165-year-old wedge of nature look fresh and young again.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 28 Apr. 2025

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“Aperiodic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aperiodic. Accessed 3 May. 2025.

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