Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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polynomial

UK /ˌpɒlɪˈnəʊmɪəl/ · US /ˌpɑliˈnoʊmiəl/ noun, adjective

Forms polynomials

  1. noun (algebra, strict sense) An expression consisting of a sum of a finite number of terms, each term being the product of a constant coefficient and one or more variables raised to a non-negative integer power, such as a_nxⁿ+a_n-1xⁿ⁻¹+...+a_0x⁰.
  2. noun (taxonomy) A taxonomic designation (such as of a subspecies) consisting of more than two terms.
  3. noun (linguistics, Sinology) A type of term consisting of multiple parts.
  4. adjective (algebra) Able to be described or limited by a polynomial.
  5. adjective (taxonomy) Of a polynomial name or entity.

Synonyms

multinomial

Etymology

From poly- + -nomial, from νομός (nomós, “portion, part”), by analogy with binomial.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun An expression composed of two or more terms, connected by the signs plus or minus; as, a2 - 2ab + b2.
  2. adjective Containing many names or terms; multinominal; as, the polynomial theorem.
  3. adjective Consisting of two or more words; having names consisting of two or more words; as, a polynomial name; polynomial nomenclature.

Etymology [Poly- + -nomial, as in monomial, binomial: cf. F. polynôme.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “polynomial”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details