catalecticant
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
catalectic + -ant, coined by James Joseph Sylvester in 1852.
Noun[edit]
catalecticant (plural catalecticants)
- (mathematics) A polynomial in the coefficients of a form of even degree that vanishes when the form is a sum of an unusually small number of powers of linear forms.
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