adjective
- of or relating to the division of a circle into equal parts, or to polynomials whose roots are roots of unity
Usage: mathematics; technical
Examples
- Cyclotomic polynomials are fundamental objects in algebraic number theory.
- The cyclotomic field is generated by a primitive root of unity.
- Gauss studied cyclotomic equations in his work on constructible polygons.
- The roots of a cyclotomic polynomial lie on the unit circle in the complex plane.