Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or consisting of more than two names or terms.
- noun A taxonomic designation consisting of more than two terms.
- noun An algebraic expression consisting of one or more summed terms, each term consisting of a constant multiplier and one or more variables raised to integral powers. For example, x2 − 5x + 6 and 2p3q + y are polynomials.
- noun An expression of two or more terms.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing many names or terms.
- In Zoöl. and botany, Specifically, noting a method of nomenclature in which the technical names of species are not confined to two terms, the generic and the specific, as they are in the binomial system of nomenclature: as, a polynomial name; a polynomial system of nomenclature: contrasted with binomial and mononomial.
- Also multinomial, plurinominal.
- A technical name consisting of more than two terms; a-polyonym.
- An algebraical expression consisting of two or more terms united by addition: as, Also
multinomial .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Alg.) An expression composed of two or more terms, connected by the signs plus or minus; as, a2 - 2ab + b2.
- adjective Containing many names or terms; multinominal.
- adjective Consisting of two or more words; having names consisting of two or more words
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective algebra Able to be described or limited by a polynomial.
- adjective taxonomy of a polynomial name or entity
- noun algebra An expression consisting of a sum of a finite number of
terms , each term being the product of aconstant coefficient and one or morevariables raised to anon-negative integer power, such as . - noun taxonomy A
taxonomic designation (such as of asubspecies )consisting of more than twoterms .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mathematical function that is the sum of a number of terms
- adjective having the character of a polynomial
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In the above examples, each piecewise polynomial is defined on an interval with the same length and thus forms a uniform basis.
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The idea was to start a pendulum from several different heights in order to cover a range of velocities and then to use simultaneous algebraic equations to fit a two or three term polynomial to two or three lost-arc data-points, changing the exponents until the polynomial achieved good agreement with the other lost-arc data points.
Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica Smith, George 2007
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And there are tons of computational complexity classes above the standard P and NP that represent problems that deterministic and non-deterministic Turing Machines can solve in polynomial time.
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This isn't a trivial difference; a model that can solve a problem in polynomial time really is fundamentally more powerful than one that takes exponential time.
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In this equation, d is called the polynomial's degree.
DevX: Latest Published Articles Rod Stephens 2010
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In this equation, d is called the polynomial's degree.
DevX: Latest Published Articles Rod Stephens 2010
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Also, all such calculations are done modulo another polynomial, which is called the irreducible polynomial for the field.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Linux 2010
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We call a polynomial p (x) with integer coefficients irreducible if p (x) cannot be written as a product of two polynomials with integer coefficients neither of which is a constant.
LearnHub Activities 2008
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The degree of the polynomial is the degree of the term with highest degree.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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-- Key wireless functions such as polynomial generation and multiply - accumulate for de-spreading functions (up to 16 complex code MACs/cycle) -- High precision FFTs with adaptive range management
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