AFFECTED
, or Adfected, Equation, in Algebra, is an equation in which the unknown quantity rises to two or more several powers or degrees. Such, for example, is the equation , in which there are three different powers of x, namely, x3, x2, and x.
The term, affected, is also used sometimes in algebra, when speaking of quantities that have co-efficients.
Thus in the quantity 2a, a is said to be affected with the co-efficient 2.
It is also said, that an algebraic quantity is affected with the sign + or -, or with a radical sign; meaning no more than that it has the sign + or -, or that it includes a radical sign.
The term adfected, or affected, I think, was introduced by Vieta.
