quadratic programming
noun
A technique analogous to linear programming but dealing with a quadratic rather than a linear objective function.
Origin
1950s.
- pejoratively
- aslant
- a slap in the face
- a slap on the back
- a slap on the wrist
- (as) large as life
- asleep
- asleep at the wheel (or switch)
- ASLEF
- AS level
- a slice of life
- a slice of the action
- (as) light as a feather
- (as) like as not
- as likely as not
- a slip of a ——
- as long as
- as long as one's (or someone's) arm
- aslope
- a slow burn
- as luck would have it
- ASM
- a smack in the face (or eye)
- (as) mad as a box of frogs
- (as) mad as a gum tree full of galahs