teragon

noun.

teragon. (plural teragons).

  1. a recursive and infinite self-similar fractal.
  2. a polygon that has infinite fractal sides, the most famous example being the Koch snowflake, one of the earliest fractals, described by Helge von Koch in his paper On a Continuous Curve Without Tangents, Constructible from Elementary Geometry (1904).
  3. term coined by Benoît Mandelbrot from the words τέρας (teras: wonder, marvel) + γωνία (gōnía: corner), in his book The Fractal Geometry of Nature (1982).
  4. an AI research and engineering lab from London, UK (2026), currently building:
super computer A self-hosted AI computer. hackable.space An AI education platform.