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 or function 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

[Latin quārtus, fourth; see quart + –ic.]

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Examples

  • 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!

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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

  • 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

  • Bosonic loops - with the Higgs external lines attached to a quartic vertex - give similar quadratically divergent contributions to the Higgs squared mass.

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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.

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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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