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DIAGONALISE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they diagonalise ... he / she / it diagonalises
Past simple: diagonalised
Past participle: diagonalised
-ing form: diagonalising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix
Synonyms:
diagonalise; diagonalize
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "diagonalise" is one way to...):
transform; translate (change from one form or medium into another)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
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)
diagonalisation (changing a square matrix to diagonal form (with all non-zero elements on the principal diagonal))
