principal diagonal

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsmain diagonal

   Broaderdiagonal

Questions about principal diagonal

What does principal diagonal mean?

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

What is another word for principal diagonal?

Close synonyms include main 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 principal diagonal a common word?

principal 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.