mononomialn.adj.

1844 T. De Quincey Logic Polit. Econ. Pref. 9 Consequently, whilst ‘natural price’ (the contradiction of ‘market price’) is always a mononomial, price, founded on the relation of Supply to Demand, must always be a binomial.

1873 F. Hall Mod. Eng. vi. 175 (note) Then there is dynameter, with the monomial of the mathematicians,—for the latter of which, Mr. De Quincey..laudably sustitutes the right formation,—slavishly copied from the French, for dynamometer and mononomial.

1994 Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 121 989 The Poincaré–Birkhoff–Witt Theorem tells us that U(g) has a basis of mononomials.

1951 Brittonia 7 170 Desfontaines changed the specific name of this type species to C. jacquini, undoubtedly on the grounds that Marcgrave and Piso's mononomial..was used more than a century before..and that the description accompanying their mononomial better depicted the ‘official’ plant.

1984 Language 60 759 Single nouns also show cases of anomaly resulting from absence of a determiner... These mononomials also usually have some ‘formulaic’ flavor.

1990 Chicago Tribune (Nexis) 10 June c1 The Brazilian Careca (Brazilian soccer stars, like some actresses, affect the mononomial) may be more talked about this month than Julius Caesar and Sandro Botticelli, but no one pretends they will be remembered for nearly as long.

1861 J. J. Sylvester Coll. Math. Papers (1908) II. 269 Since there is evidently one mononomial syntheme, the total number of synthemes of all three kinds will be 1+18+9=28=^8x7/ ₂, as it should be.

1867 ‘L. Carroll’ Elem. Treat. Determinants App. V. 128 Given an algebraic function of 2 or more terms; to construct a square Block, whose Elements are all mononomial, and whose Determinant vanishes simultaneously with the given function.

1883 Analyst 10 13 If m is odd eq. (b) may be developed and will take the form of a rational fraction, with or without a series of mononomial terms, and may be integrated accordingly.

1885 Amer. Naturalist 19 704 We do not believe..that a generic name can be preoccupied by the name of an order, or other mononomial word, or vice versa.

1927 Amer. Naturalist 61 235 The anterior portion of the coxa..I have termed the coxon... A mononomial is here certainly to be preferred to a binomial term, and the word coxon..possesses the merit of brevity.

1984 Language 60 785 Thus, in contrast to the titles in 40d–f, mononomial titles..are hardly acceptable.

1989 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 1 Dec. Leonid Chizik..was decidedly disappointing in his earlier outing with the mononomial bassist Dvoskin.