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noun
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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History
From catalectic + -ant, coined by James Joseph Sylvester in 1852.
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