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selfadjoint

selfadjoint is the alternative spelling of self-adjoint.

Meaning of self-adjoint

Adjective

self-adjoint (not comparable)

  1. Adjoint to itself.
  2. (functional analysis) Being a Hilbert space operator which is Hermitian and also whose eigenvectors span the entire Hilbert space.

Words formed from selfadjoint

Questions about selfadjoint

What is selfadjoint the alternative spelling of?
Selfadjoint is the alternative spelling of self-adjoint.

Words near selfadjoint in the dictionary

  1. self-worths
  2. self-wrong
  3. self-wrongs
  4. self-XSS
  5. selfabsorption
  6. selfadjoint
  7. selfadjointness
  8. selfassembled
  9. selfassembling
  10. selfassembly
  11. selfassessment

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