quartic

American  

[kwawr-tik] / ˈkwɔr tɪk /

adjective

1. of or relating to the fourth degree.

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noun

1. Also called biquadratic.  a quartic polynomial or equation.

quartic British  

/ ˈkwɔːtɪk /

adjective

1. another word for biquadratic

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Etymology

Origin of quartic

1855–60; < Latin quart ( us ) fourth + -ic

Example Sentences

No. Direct variation equations are power functions—they may be linear, quadratic, cubic, quartic, radical, etc.

From Textbooks • Feb. 13, 2015

The Klein quartic can’t be fully realized in 3-dimensional space because we can’t make a model of it that has all of the possible symmetries.

From Scientific American • Nov. 17, 2013

It’s a model of a surface called the Klein quartic.

From Scientific American • Nov. 17, 2013

Once you’ve tiled the hyperbolic plane by heptagons, you can glue 24 of them together in a certain way to create a Klein quartic surface, and that is exactly what Taimina did.

From Scientific American • Nov. 17, 2013

As early as the sixteenth century, mathematicians were using numbers with i included—the so-called complex numbers—to solve cubic and quartic polynomials.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife