English Explanatory Dictionary

diagonalisation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. In matrix algebra, the process of converting a square matrix into a diagonal matrix, usually to find the eigenvalues of the matrix.
  2. An argument used in proof by contradiction by constructing a supposedly exhaustive list of all members of a class, and then subsequently constructing a new member which differs from each existing member in at least one place and therefore cannot belong to the list.

Word forms

diagonalisation diagonalisations diagonalization

Etymology

From diagonal + -isation.

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