English Explanatory Dictionary

catalecticant

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A polynomial in the coefficients of a form of even degree that vanishes when the form is a sum of an unusually small number of powers of linear forms.

Word forms

catalecticant catalecticants

Etymology

From catalectic + -ant, coined by James Joseph Sylvester in 1852.

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