quadratic
nounEtymology From French quadratique (1765), from Latin quadrātus + -ique (English -ic), form of quadrō (“to make square”), from quādrus (“square”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷetwóres (“four”), whence also Latin quartus (“fourth”).
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Mathematics, Sciences A quadratic polynomial, function or equation.
- If the binomial roots of a series of quadratics be squaredly squared, and those results be constant portions of the cube of the resolvend, and the dioristic limit; […]1809, Charles Hutton, The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London from Their Commencement in 1665 to the Year 1800, volume 3, The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, page 41:
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biquadratic, multiquadratic, nonquadratic, paraquadratic, polyquadratic, postquadratic, prequadratic, quadratic acid, quadratically, quadratic equation, quadratic field, quadratic form, quadratic formula, quadratic function, quadratic integer, quadraticity, quadratic mean, quadratic reciprocity, quadratic residue, quadratic surd, quadratic time, quadratization, quadratize, subquadratic, superquadratic- Related terms
- quadrate, quadrature, square