diagonalize

About 0.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. verb To convert a square matrix into a diagonal matrix by multiplying it by a second matrix and its inverse.
2. verb To design variables such that design problems only bear upon subsets that are loosely coupled to others.

Similar words

diagonalise rediagonalize antisymmetrize biorthogonalise matricize biorthogonalize dedimensionalize conjugate bilinearise eigendecompose

Often followed by

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Word family

diagonalizable diagonalization diagonalizations diagonalized diagonalizes diagonalizing