quadratic equation

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   an equation in which the highest power of an unknown quantity is a square

   Synonymsquadratic

   Broaderequation

Questions about quadratic equation

What does quadratic equation mean?

quadratic equation means "an equation in which the highest power of an unknown quantity is a square".

What is another word for quadratic equation?

Close synonyms include quadratic. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is quadratic equation a common word?

quadratic equation 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.