1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Biquadratic

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10406701911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 3 — Biquadratic

BIQUADRATIC (from the Lat. bi-, bis, twice, and quadratus, squared). In mathematics, the biquadratic power or root of a quantity is its fourth power or root (see Algebra); a biquadratic equation is an equation in which the highest power of the unknown is the fourth (see Equation: Biquadratic).