In mathematics, the word monomial means two different things in the context of polynomials: The first meaning's a product of powers of variables, or formally any value obtained from 1 by finitely many multiplications by a variable. If only a single variable x's considered this means that any monomial's either 1 or a power x^n of x, with n a positive integer. If several variables are considered, say, x, y, z, then each can be given an exponent, so that any monomial's of the form x^a y^b z^c with… (More on Monomial)