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DIAGONALIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does diagonalize mean?
• DIAGONALIZE (verb)
The verb DIAGONALIZE has 1 sense:
1. transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix
Familiarity information: DIAGONALIZE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it diagonalizes Past simple: diagonalized
Past participle: diagonalized
-ing form: diagonalizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
diagonalise; diagonalize
Hypernyms (to "diagonalize" is one way to...):
transform; translate (change from one form or medium into another)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
diagonal ((mathematics) a set of entries in a square matrix running diagonally either from the upper left to lower right entry or running from the upper right to lower left entry)
diagonalization (changing a square matrix to diagonal form (with all non-zero elements on the principal diagonal))
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