unit matrix

1. 1.

   a scalar matrix in which all of the diagonal elements are unity

   Synonymsidentity matrix

   Broaderscalar matrix

Questions about unit matrix

What does unit matrix mean?

unit matrix means "a scalar matrix in which all of the diagonal elements are unity".

What is another word for unit matrix?

Close synonyms include identity 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 unit matrix a common word?

unit 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.