zenzizenzic

plural zenzizenzics · alternative zenzi zenzick

1. obsoletemathematicsThe fourth power of a number; the biquadrate.

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   Take the Zenzizenzike Number of the last Quotient Figure, and with the 3 numbers last above-mentioned, add them (duely placed one nearer than another to the Right Hand) into one total Gnonom, and subtract the same from the given Number : And if the number have more Pricks than 2, the work in the second, third, fourth and fifth Directions is to be repeated.

   1701, Samuel Jeake, A compleat body of arithmetic, in four books, T. Newborough, page 200

   While this is the least accurate of the four approximations discussed here, it has the charm that the numerator is the zenzizenzic of 4 […]

   1965, Dmitri A. Borgmann, Language on Vacation: An Olio of Orthographical Oddities, page 253