quadratic equation

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quadratic equation

noun quadratic equations

  1. A polynomial equation of the second degree; an equation that can be rearranged in standard form as ax²+bx+c=0, where x is an unknown value, a, b, and c are known numbers, and where a does not equal zero. When I was seven years old at a new school, I cried all day, every day. When I was 14 years old, I cried in maths lessons. An improvement, I guess. It wasn’t that I was bad at maths; I knew my way around a quadratic equation, let me tell you.

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noun second-degree equation

Españolecuación cuadrática, ecuación de segundo grado
한국어이차 방정식 icha bangjeongsik
日本語二次方程式 niji hōteishiki
中文二次方程 èr-cì fāngchéng
हिन्दीद्विघात समीकरण dvighāt samīkraṇ
Portuguêsequação quadrática, equação do segundo grau
Françaiséquation du second degré
Deutschquadratische Gleichung
Italianoequazione di secondo grado, equazione quadratica
Românăecuație de gradul al doilea, ecuație pătratică
Русскийквадра́тное уравне́ние kvadrátnoje uravnénije

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@misc{quadratic_equation_2026,
  title = {quadratic equation},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
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  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}