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square root

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
Related topics: Maths, Numbers
ˌsquare ˈroot noun [countable]  HMthe square root of a number is the number which, when multiplied by itself, equals that number 平方根square root of The square root of nine is three. 9 的平方根是 3
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square rootA number of early computers had an instruction to extract a square root, but nowadays this operation is achieved by software.Does this have a square root?Having a square root for-1, it is now no great effort to provide square roots for all the real numbers.Excluding the few outliers, we can calculate the square root of the average squared error over all subjects for each repetition.Unfortunately, the question seemed to me something of a nonsense, as it involved the square root of a minus quantity.The square root of it is two hundred and seventy-seven point four nine.
ˌsquare ˈroot nounChineseSyllable
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square root
ˌsquare ˈroot noun [countable]
the square root of a number is the number which, when multiplied by itself, equals that number
    square root of
    The square root of nine is three.


square rootBrE /ˌskweə ˈruːt/ 🔊NAmE /ˌskwer ˈruːt/ 🔊 noun (mathematics 数学) a number which when multiplied by itself produces a particular number 平方根The square root of 64 (√64) is 8 (8 × 8 = 64).64 的平方根是 8。   compare cube root