diagonal matrix

1. 1.

   a square matrix with all elements not on the main diagonal equal to zero

   Broadersquare matrix

   Narrowerscalar matrix

Questions about diagonal matrix

What does diagonal matrix mean?

diagonal matrix means "a square matrix with all elements not on the main diagonal equal to zero".

Is diagonal matrix a common word?

diagonal 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.