square root
Noun
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Noun
square root (plural square roots)
- (mathematics) The number which, when squared, yields another number.
- The square roots of 4 are 2 and −2, the square root of 0 is 0, and the square roots of −4 are 2i and −2i.
- (mathematics) The positive number which, when squared, yields another number; the principal square root.
- The square root of 4 is 2. No negative square roots exist. Negative numbers have no square roots.
- (mathematics) √, sqr, sqrt
- (the positive of the two values) principal square root
- French: racine carrée
- German: Quadratwurzel
- Italian: radice quadrata
- Portuguese: raiz quadrada
- Russian: квадра́тный ко́рень
- Spanish: raíz cuadrada
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