quadric in English
noun
1
a quadric surface or curve.
His work in geometry included a study of conics, quadrics and projective geometry.
adjective
1
(of a surface or curve) described by an equation of the second degree.
His doctorate was awarded by Leiden in 1870 for a dissertation Homography applied to the theory of quadric surfaces.
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1. Project papers have been published on functional codes arising from the intersections of algebraic hypersurfaces of small degree with a non-singular quadric, and on bounds on the number of rational points of algebraic hypersurfaces over finite fields.