Math. [f. L. quant-us how much + -IC.] A rational, integral, homogeneous function of two or more variables.
A quantic according to its dimensions is a quadric, cubic, quartic, etc., according as it is of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, etc., degree; and is binary, ternary, quaternary, etc., according as it has two, three, four, etc., variables.
1854. A. Cayley, Wks. (1887), II. 224. We may instead of a single quantic consider two or more quantics.
1881. Burnside & Panton, Th. Equat., Introd. p. 4. A polynomial is sometimes called a quantic.
1895. E. B. Elliott (title), An Introduction to the Algebra of Quantics.
Hence Quantical a., relating to quantics.
