monic

[ mon-ik ]

adjective

, Mathematics.

1. (of a polynomial) having the coefficient of the term of highest degree equal to 1.

Word History and Origins

Origin of monic¹

First recorded in 1935–40; mon- + -ic

Example Sentences

“Any itemized deduction you know can be done now should be,” says Monic Ramirez, a tax partner at accounting firm Sensiba San Filippo in California.

From Washington Post

Monic Hendrickx stars as Carmen van Walraven, a mother of three who assumes control of her assassinated husband’s crime ring.

From New York Times

Ms. Diaz said she and her son and daughter, Eduardo, 17, and Monic, 12, have been unnerved by the gunshots, ambulance sirens and yells of drunks that animate the night around their blue stucco home in northeast Las Vegas, perpetually strung with Christmas lights.

From New York Times

He, too, like Friedrich Nietzsche had d�monic fantasy; but for him it was a gift, for the other a curse.

From Project Gutenberg

If we say that pagans and Christians alike believed in the occurrence of these miracles and in d�monic agency as their cause, it remains that the Christians put something much nearer the modern value upon them, while Celsus, who denounced the Christians as fools, tendered this contemptible evidence for the religion he advocated.

From Project Gutenberg