Definitions

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  • To the second degree.

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  • adverb In a quadratic way.

Etymologies

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quadratic +‎ -ally

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Examples

  • In computer science, that computation is said to scale "quadratically".

    Gründerszene.de - Infos für Gründer, Unternehmer, StartUps 2009

  • If I may geek out here for a moment — math-geek out, that is — the expense of doing f/x should rise polynomially — quadratically, in fact — with the (linear) size of the negative.

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  • The mixture of the two is quadratically difficult as anybunny entangled in discussions of future changes can tell.

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  • The mixture of the two is quadratically difficult as anybunny entangled in discussions of future changes can tell.

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

    The Reference Frame 2010

  • And made all class levels worth the same number of Exps. Which both revealed an enormous amount of problems with the system (notably that the power of fighters scales linearly, that of wizards scales quadratically).

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  • It's because these countries rank tragically low on my quadratically derived "Club Meds per capita" wellbeing index.

    newmatilda.com - Comments GF 2010

  • It's because these countries rank tragically low on my quadratically derived "Club Meds per capita" wellbeing index.

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  • Now, he allows the tachyon to (quadratically) depend on a transverse dimension X2, too.

    The Reference Frame 2010

  • You can see that the running time grows at least quadratically with the length of the list, n.

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