# Quadratic vs Breeder - What's the difference?

## As nouns the difference between quadratic and breeder

is that quadratic is a quadratic polynomial, function or equation while breeder is a person who breeds plants or animals professionally.

is square-shaped.

## English

### Alternative forms

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• square-shaped
• (mathematics) of a polynomial, involving the second power (square) of a variable but no higher powers, as $ax^2 + bx + c$.
• (mathematics) of an equation, of the form $ax^2 + bx + c = 0$.
• (mathematics) of a function, of the form $y = ax^2 + bx + c$.
• ### Noun

(en noun)
• (mathematics) A quadratic polynomial, function or equation.

* cubic * linear * quartic * quintic

# breeder

## English

(wikipedia breeder)

### Noun

(en noun)
• A person who breeds plants or animals professionally.
• (gay slang, derogatory) A heterosexual; i.e. one whose sexual intercourse can lead to breeding.
• Since the breeders started coming here, you can never tell who likes cock.
• A type of nuclear reactor that creates material suitable for the production of atomic weapons. (See Wikipedia's article on s.)
• (slang, derogatory) a person who has had or who is capable of having children; a person who is focussed on the rearing of their own children.
• * 1729 :
• The number of souls in this kingdom being usually reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be about two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders'; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children, although I apprehend there cannot be so many, under the present distresses of the kingdom; but this being granted, there will remain an hundred and seventy thousand ' breeders .
• (cellular automata) A pattern that exhibits quadratic growth by generating multiple copies of a secondary pattern, each of which then generates multiple copies of a tertiary pattern.
• #### Derived terms

* stockbreeder