catalecticant

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Etymology

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From catalectic +‎ -ant, coined by James Joseph Sylvester in 1852.

Noun

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catalecticant (plural catalecticants)

  1. (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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