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Degree of a Term
The degree of a term is the sum of the exponents of all its variables. For a term with a single variable, the degree equals the exponent on that variable — for example, has degree 2 and has degree 1 (since ). For a term with multiple variables, the exponents are added together — for example, has degree . A special case is a constant term (a monomial with no variable at all), which always has degree 0 because there are no variable factors present.
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