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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An equation that employs the variable x having the general form ax2 + bx + c = 0, where a, b, and c are constants and a does not equal zero; that is, the variable is squared but raised to no higher power.
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- noun mathematics a
polynomial equation of the second degree.
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- noun an equation in which the highest power of an unknown quantity is a square
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