Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to the fourth degree.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In mathematics, of the fourth degree; especially, of the fourth order.
- noun An algebraic function of the fourth degree; a quantic of the fourth degree.
- noun In geometry, a curve or surface of the fourth degree or order.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Mach.) Of the fourth degree.
- noun (Alg.) A quantic of the fourth degree. See
quantic . - noun (Geom.) A curve or surface whose equation is of the fourth degree in the variables.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective mathematics of, or relating to the
fourth degree - noun mathematics an
algebraic equation orfunction of the fourth degree
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an algebraic equation of the fourth degree
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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So their might be universes with spaces that have quartic Plucker coordinates, or universes based on mathematics we don't even know about.
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The progression goes from quadratic to cubic to quartic to quintic functions.
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The diamond mountains now orbiting among the satellites of Jupiter may open up the entire Solar System; how trivial, by comparison, appear all the ancient uses of the quartic-crystallized form of carbon!
2061 Odyssey Three Clarke, Arthur C. 1987
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I have been making some calculations and have been able to satisfy myself that a 'hyperspace' about ten feet on a side was, in fact, generated: a matter of some ten thousand quartic-not cubic!
Reach For Tomorrow Clarke, Arthur C. 1956
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I have been making some calculations and have been able to satisfy myself that a 'hyperspace' about ten feet on a side was, in fact, generated: a matter of some ten thousand quartic-not cubic!
Reach for Tomorrow Clarke, Arthur C. 1956
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Bosonic loops - with the Higgs external lines attached to a quartic vertex - give similar quadratically divergent contributions to the Higgs squared mass.
The Reference Frame 2010
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Getting the distance between an number of points and an ellipse can be solved analytically which would go down to solving a quartic equation in cos (f), with (f) the true anomaly on the ellipse.
Softpedia - Windows - All Softpedia Webscripts 2010
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You choose the type of fit: linear, quadratic, cubic, or quartic.
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It may look like this: x x + 1 x + 2 x + 3 = 120 Ridding the parentheses here leaves us with a fourth-degree equation (a quartic equation) in one variable.
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At those values, the quartic self-interaction would be very strong and would be running even stronger very quickly, eventually falling into the "Landau pole" trap of a divergent interaction that probably makes the theory inconsistent as a separate theory (and surely useless in its perturbative form).
The Reference Frame 2010
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