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Quadratic   Listen
adjective
Quadratic  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to a square, or to squares; resembling a quadrate, or square; square.
2.
(Crystallog.) Tetragonal.
3.
(Alg.) Pertaining to terms of the second degree; as, a quadratic equation, in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a square.






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"Quadratic" Quotes from Famous Books



... know something as well as we, and that they will exercise that knowledge while listening to our relation of some new and important facts. Hence it is said that "brevity is the soul of wit." But suppose you should talk of surds, simple and quadratic equations, diophantine problems, and logarithms, to a person who knows nothing of proportion or relation, addition or subtraction. What would they know about your words? You might as well give them a description in Arabic or Esquimaux. They must first learn the simple rules on which ...
— Lectures on Language - As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. • William S. Balch



Words linked to "Quadratic" :   multinomial, equation, square, quadratic equation



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