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zenzizenzic

zenzizenzic noun: the fourth power of a number; the biquadrate.

Noun

zenzizenzic (plural zenzizenzics)

  1. (obsolete) The fourth power of a number; the biquadrate.
    • Take the Zenzizenzike Number of the last Quotient Figure, and with the 3 numbers last above-mentioned, add them (duely placed one nearer than another to the Right Hand) into one total Gnonom, and subtract the same from the given Number : And if the number have more Pricks than 2, the work in the...1701, Samuel Jeake, A compleat body of arithmetic, in four books, T. Newborough, page 200
    • While this is the least accurate of the four approximations discussed here, it has the charm that the numerator is the zenzizenzic of 4 […]1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation: An Olio of Orthographical Oddities, page 253

Forms of zenzizenzic

pluralzenzizenzics
alternative formzenzi zenzick

Origin of zenzizenzic

Coined by Robert Recorde (as zenzizenzike) in his 1557 mathematics book The Whetstone of Witte, from the root word zenzic.

Questions about zenzizenzic

What does zenzizenzic mean?
Zenzizenzic means the fourth power of a number; the biquadrate.
What part of speech is zenzizenzic?
Zenzizenzic is a noun.
What is the plural of zenzizenzic?
The plural of zenzizenzic is zenzizenzics.

Words near zenzizenzic in the dictionary

  1. Zentzes
  2. Zenz
  3. zenzenite
  4. Zenzes
  5. zenzic
  6. zenzizenzic
  7. zenzizenzics
  8. zenzizenzizenzic
  9. zenzizenzizenzizenzic
  10. zenzizenzizenzizenzike
  11. Zenú

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