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Yielding a parabola, in a way
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quadratic
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an equation in which the highest power of an unknown quantity is a square [syn: quadratic equation ] a polynomial of the second degree [syn: quadratic polynomial ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In mathematics, the term quadratic describes something that pertains to squares , to the operation of squaring, to terms of the second degree , or equations or formulas that involve such terms. Quadratus is Latin for square .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quadratic \Quad*rat"ic\, a. [Cf. F. quadratique.] Of or pertaining to a square, or to squares; resembling a quadrate, or square; square. (Crystallog.) Tetragonal. (Alg.) Pertaining to terms of the second degree; as, a quadratic equation, in which the highest ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "square," with -ic + obsolete quadrate "a square; a group of four things" (late 14c.), from Latin quadratum , noun use of neuter adjective quadratus "square, squared," past participle of quadrare "to square, set in order, complete" (see quadrant ...
Usage examples of quadratic.
Angrily, he wipes away the tears as he recites the quadratic equation, the Fibonacci sequence to a thousand, pi to the twenty-second digit, which is as far as he’.
It's like any algebraic general case, like the general quadratic equation for instance.
Did your mathematical studies ever reach to the quadratic equation, Stephen?
And all the while in the back of her mind, that whispering suspicion nagged at her, the feeling of being faced with a quadratic equation, with two solutions.
She was back to the quadratic equation again, with positive and negative solutions, and no way of telling which was which.
Although he didn't know it (having pretty much dozed through that part of Nerd Math), he had reinvented the general quadratic equation in two variables, which can indeed be used to isolate components in a simple mathematical series.
All the same, I felt a great deal of sympathy for Sandy, even though she was never going to figure out just what the quadratic equation was all about.
If there's a formula - some binomial theorem or quadratic equation or something like that - I don't see it.
The comet's been on its way possibly since the first humans climbed down out of the trees, and this day was marked on some cosmic calendar with all the inevitability of a quadratic equation.
The stick people had set up a number of lamps, forming the outline of a large quadratic field.