MAIN DIAGONAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does main diagonal mean? 

• MAIN DIAGONAL (noun)
  The noun MAIN DIAGONAL has 1 sense:

1. the diagonal of a square matrix running from the upper left entry to the lower right entry

  Familiarity information: MAIN DIAGONAL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAIN DIAGONAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The diagonal of a square matrix running from the upper left entry to the lower right entry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

main diagonal; principal diagonal

Hypernyms ("main diagonal" is a kind of...):

diagonal (an oblique line of squares of the same color on a checkerboard)