What does characteristic root of a square matrix mean?

characteristic root of a square matrix means "(mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant".

What is another word for characteristic root of a square matrix?

Close synonyms include eigenvalue, eigenvalue of a matrix, eigenvalue of a square matrix. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is characteristic root of a square matrix a common word?

characteristic root of a square matrix is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Characteristic root of a square matrix — meaning

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(mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant
Synonymseigenvalue eigenvalue of a matrix eigenvalue of a square matrix
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What does characteristic root of a square matrix mean?: characteristic root of a square matrix means "(mathematics) any number such that a given square matrix minus that number times the identity matrix has a zero determinant".
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