degree of a term

1. 1.

   the sum of the exponents of the variables in the term

   Broaderdegree

Questions about degree of a term

What does degree of a term mean?

degree of a term means "the sum of the exponents of the variables in the term".

Is degree of a term a common word?

degree of a term is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.