Quartic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Quartic \Quar"tic\, n.
     (a) (Alg.) A quantic of the fourth degree. See {Quantic}.
     (b) (Geom.) A curve or surface whose equation is of the
         fourth degree in the variables.
         [1913 Webster]



From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Quartic \Quar"tic\, a. [L. quartus fourth.] (Mach.)
     Of the fourth degree.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  quartic
       n : an algebraic equation of the fourth degree [syn: {biquadrate},
            {biquadratic}, {fourth power}]