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characteristic roots

characteristic roots is the plural of characteristic root.

Meaning of characteristic root

Noun

characteristic root (plural characteristic roots)

  1. An eigenvalue.
    • 1962 [Prentice Hall], Leonard E. Fuller, Basic Matrix Theory, 2017, Dover, page 217,
      There is an important relationship between the characteristic roots of a symmetric matrix and the r and p of the associated quadratic form. It is true that the number of positive characteristic roots is p, whereas...

Questions about characteristic roots

What is characteristic roots the plural of?
Characteristic roots is the plural of characteristic root.

Words near characteristic roots in the dictionary

  1. characteristic function
  2. characteristic functions
  3. characteristic polynomial
  4. characteristic polynomials
  5. characteristic root
  6. characteristic roots
  7. characteristic time
  8. characteristic times
  9. characteristic value
  10. characteristic values
  11. characteristic vector

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