DIAGONALISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diagonalise mean? 

• DIAGONALISE (verb)
  The verb DIAGONALISE has 1 sense:

1. transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix

  Familiarity information: DIAGONALISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIAGONALISE (verb)

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

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

diagonalise; diagonalize

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))