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diagonalisation

dia·go·na·lisation

uncommon

noun

1.

changing a square matrix to diagonal form (with all non-zero elements on the principal diagonal)

  • “the diagonalization of a normal matrix by a unitary transformation”

Origin

From diagonal + -isation.

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