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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The branch of algebra that deals with quadratic equations.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Alg.) That branch of algebra which treats of quadratic equations.

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  • noun Plural form of quadratic.

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  • noun a branch of algebra dealing with quadratic equations

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Examples

  • (that is, our quadratics are monic), to make our calculations easier.

    Charlottesville Blogs 2008

  • Attempts to fit other functions, such as quadratics, other polynomials, logarithmic functions and exponentials all produced very small R-squared values.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2008

  • Attempts to fit other functions, such as quadratics, other polynomials, logarithmic functions and exponentials all produced very small R-squared values.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2008

  • Attempts to fit other functions, such as quadratics, other polynomials, logarithmic functions and exponentials all produced very small R-squared values.

    SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page 2008

  • For example, after I read a recent post by a Sam Shah about visually representing quadratics to see how many are factorable over integers, I started thinking about some ways to drive that point to students.

    The Ten Commandments Darren Kuropatwa 2009

  • I described about 4 different ways that it could be done and even created a tool to visualize quadratics factorization, but unless someone comments or e-mails me, I'm basically in the dark.

    The Ten Commandments Darren Kuropatwa 2009

  • The other good thing I discovered was what to say to someone at a party when they discover you are a maths teacher and come up to you and say, "they taught me boring quadratics at school and I am a successful businessman and have never used quadratics ... what a waste of time".

    Archive 2008-02-01 Bill Kerr 2008

  • When I studied quadratics deeply - by writing a logo program to teach quadratics behaviouristically - I was able to teach them more effectively.

    minsky's attempt to explain hard problem solving Bill Kerr 2008

  • The other good thing I discovered was what to say to someone at a party when they discover you are a maths teacher and come up to you and say, "they taught me boring quadratics at school and I am a successful businessman and have never used quadratics ... what a waste of time".

    what is maths? Bill Kerr 2008

  • When I studied quadratics deeply - by writing a logo program to teach quadratics behaviouristically - I was able to teach them more effectively.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Bill Kerr 2008

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