Diagonalize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Diagonalize is a verb meaning (mathematics, transitive) To convert a square matrix into a diagonal matrix by multiplying it by a second matrix and its inverse.
Meaning
(mathematics, transitive) To convert a square matrix into a diagonal matrix by multiplying it by a second matrix and its inverse.
More Meanings
- (cybernetics) To design variables such that design problems only bear upon subsets that are loosely coupled to others.
Example Sentences
And what we should do, therefore, is to diagonalize the variables—we should find some new design variables such that design problems only bear upon subsets of them that are loosely coupled to others, like the subsystems of ten lights in the example.
Word Forms
- diagonalizes
- diagonalizing
- diagonalized
- diagonalise
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include diagonalise, rediagonalize, antisymmetrize, biorthogonalise, matricize, biorthogonalize.
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