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heteromecic

heteromecic adjective: being the product of two consecutive integers.

Adjective

heteromecic (not comparable)

  1. Being the product of two consecutive integers.
    • Twice a triangular number is a heteromecic number.
    • [1] Again, then, to take a fresh start, a number is called heteromecic if its representation, when graphically described in a plane, is quadrilateral and quadrangular, to be sure, but the sides are not equal to one another, nor is the length equal to the breadth, but they differ by 1. Examples are...1952 [c. 100], Nicomachus of Gerasa, translated by Martin Luther D’Ooge, edited by Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer J. Adler, and Wallace Brockway, Introduction to Arithmetic II (Great Books Of The...
    Synonyms:
    pronic

Synonyms of heteromecic

Questions about heteromecic

What does heteromecic mean?
Heteromecic means being the product of two consecutive integers.
What part of speech is heteromecic?
Heteromecic is an adjective.

Words near heteromecic in the dictionary

  1. heteromallous
  2. heteromannan
  3. heteromannans
  4. heteromarriage
  5. heteromarriages
  6. heteromecic
  7. heteromer
  8. heteromeric
  9. heteromericarpy
  10. heteromerics
  11. heteromerisation

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