Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Quantic"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Quantic \Quan"tic\, n. [L. quantus how much. See {Quantity}.]
(Math.)
A homogeneous algebraic function of two or more variables, in
general containing only positive integral powers of the
variables, and called quadric, cubic, quartic, etc.,
according as it is of the second, third, fourth, fifth, or a
higher degree. These are further called binary, ternary,
quaternary, etc., according as they contain two, three, four,
or more variables; thus, the quantic ? is a binary cubic.
Additional Hypertext Webster Gateway Lookup
Gateway by dict@stokkie.net
stock only wrote the gateway and does not have any control over the contents;
see the Webster Gateway FAQ,
and also the Back-end/database links and credits.