Definitions for binomial

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binomial bi·no·mi·al

Spelling: [bahy-noh-mee-uh l]

IPA: /baɪˈnoʊ mi əl/

Binomial is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 229 anagrams from letters in binomial (abiilmno).

Definitions for binomial

noun

1. Algebra. an expression that is a sum or difference of two terms, as 3 x + 2 y and x 2 − 4 x.
2. Zoology, Botany. a taxonomic name consisting of a generic and a specific term, used to designate species.

adjective

1. Algebra. consisting of or pertaining to two terms or a binomial.
2. Zoology, Botany. consisting of or characterized by binomials.

Origin of binomial

1550-60; Late Latin binōmi(us) having two names (compare Latin binōminis) + -al¹. See bi-¹, nominal

Examples for binomial

Oughtred lays great stress upon expansions of powers of a binomial.

Thus Linnaeus became the acknowledged originator of the binomial (two-name) system of nomenclature now in use in all sciences.

Very like the binomial Theorem as one thought over that comparison.

At nineteen such a woman is still immature; and moreover until she was twenty, Honoria had not mastered the binomial Theorem.

Review the method of finding the square root of a binomial surd.

binomial, of two words, as the name of genus and species taken together, 180.

You might as well try to rush the Proof of the binomial Theorem.

The dot is used to indicate that the root of the binomial (not of 136 alone) is called for.

A binomial in algebra is a quantity consisting of two terms.

(a) Write the middle term of the expansion of by the binomial theorem.