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Answer for the clue "(In algebra) kind of equation — resembling a square ", 9 letters:
quadratic

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. of or relating to or resembling a square; "quadratic shapes" of or relating to the second power; "quadratic equation"

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 square-shaped 2 (context mathematics English) of a polynomial, involving the second power (square) of a variable but no higher powers, as ax^2 + bx + c . 3 (context mathematics English) of an equation, of the form ax^2 + bx + c = 0 . 4 (context mathematics ...

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 ...

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.