latin square

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   a square matrix of n rows and columns; cells contain n different symbols so arranged that no symbol occurs more than once in any row or column

   Broadersquare matrix

Questions about latin square

What does latin square mean?

latin square means "a square matrix of n rows and columns; cells contain n different symbols so arranged that no symbol occurs more than once in any row or column".

Is latin square a common word?

latin square 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.