Frompoly- +-nomial, fromνομός(nomós,“portion, part”), by analogy withbinomial.
polynomial (pluralpolynomials)
- (algebra, strict sense) An expression consisting of a sum of a finite number ofterms, each term being the product of aconstantcoefficient and one or morevariables raised to anon-negativeinteger power, such as
.1999, William Dunham,Euler: The Master of Us All, Mathematical Association of America, published1999, page116:Unfortunately, an analogous attack on the octicpolynomial becomes exceedingly complicated.
2016, Grigoriy Blekherman, Daniel Plaumann, Rainer Sinn, Cynthia Vinzant, “Low-Rank Sum-of-Squares Representations on Varieties of Minimal Degree”, inarXiv[1]:Our upper bound is the best possible, and it implies the existence of low-rank factorizations of positive semidefinite bivariate matrixpolynomials and representations of biforms as sums of few squares.
- (taxonomy) Ataxonomicdesignation (such as of asubspecies)consisting of more than twoterms.
polynomial (notcomparable)
- (algebra)Able to bedescribed orlimited by apolynomial.
- (taxonomy) Of a polynomialname orentity.
polynomial (femininepolynomiale,masculine pluralpolynomiaux,feminine pluralpolynomiales)
- polynomial
