SQUARE MATRIX

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does square matrix mean? 

• SQUARE MATRIX (noun)
  The noun SQUARE MATRIX has 1 sense:

1. a matrix with the same number of rows and columns

  Familiarity information: SQUARE MATRIX used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SQUARE MATRIX (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A matrix with the same number of rows and columns

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("square matrix" is a kind of...):

matrix ((mathematics) a rectangular array of quantities or expressions set out by rows and columns; treated as a single element and manipulated according to rules)

Meronyms (parts of "square matrix"):

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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "square matrix"):

diagonal matrix (a square matrix with all elements not on the main diagonal equal to zero)

determinant (a square matrix used to solve simultaneous equations)

Latin square (a square matrix of n rows and columns; cells contain n different symbols so arranged that no symbol occurs more than once in any row or column)

magic square (a square matrix of n rows and columns; the first n^2 integers are arranged in the cells of the matrix in such a way that the sum of any row or column or diagonal is the same)

nonsingular matrix (a square matrix whose determinant is not zero)

singular matrix (a square matrix whose determinant is zero)