(poetry) (said of a line with incomplete meter) lacking a syllable at the end or ending with an incomplete foot. / incomplete; partial; not affecting the whole of a substance

(poetry) A line with incomplete meter, lacking a syllable at the end or ending with an incomplete foot.

plural of catalectic

plural of catalecticant

(mathematics) A polynomial in the coefficients of a form of even degree that vanishes when the form is a sum of an unusually small number of powers of linear forms.