Polynomial

Quick meaning: Polynomial is a noun meaning (taxonomy) A taxonomic designation (such as of a subspecies) consisting of more than two terms.

Meaning

(taxonomy) A taxonomic designation (such as of a subspecies) consisting of more than two terms.

More Meanings

1. (linguistics, Sinology) A type of term consisting of multiple parts.
2. (algebra) Able to be described or limited by a polynomial.
3. (taxonomy) Of a polynomial name or entity.
4. (algebra, strict sense) An expression consisting of a sum of a finite number of terms, each term being the product of a constant coefficient and one or more variables raised to a non-negative integer power, such as a_nxⁿ+a_n-1xⁿ⁻¹+...+a_0x⁰.

Example Sentences

Unfortunately, an analogous attack on the octic polynomial becomes exceedingly complicated.

The same corpus is used as in the analysis of the thematic scope of polynomials, except that in this case only 720 binomes will be considered.

Alternatively, there are polynomials denoting stages of the day: tónglóng 曈昽 “ light at daybreak”; or meteorological phenomena, such as wùsōng 雾凇 “(soft) rime”, àidài 叆叇 “ (of clouds) dense”.

Our upper bound is the best possible, and it implies the existence of low-rank factorizations of positive semidefinite bivariate matrix polynomials and representations of biforms as sums of few squares.

Word Forms

• polynomials

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include numerator, locator, monic, polynomic, polynome, multinomial.

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