What does "quadratic" mean?
Quadratic: (Crystallog.) Tetragonal.
Additional senses
- 2.(Alg.) Pertaining to terms of the second degree; as, a quadratic equation, in which the highest power of the unknown quantity is a square.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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