main diagonal

1. 1.

   the diagonal of a square matrix running from the upper left entry to the lower right entry

   Synonymsprincipal diagonal

   Broaderdiagonal

Questions about main diagonal

What does main diagonal mean?

main diagonal means "the diagonal of a square matrix running from the upper left entry to the lower right entry".

What is another word for main diagonal?

Close synonyms include principal diagonal. 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 main diagonal a common word?

main diagonal 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.