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eigenvalue

n. (context linear algebra English) A scalar, lambda!, such that there exists a vector x (the corresponding eigenvector) for which the image of x under a given linear operator rm A! is equal to the image of x under multiplication by lambda; i.e. {rm A} x = lambda x!

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The upper right canine was pure titanium and for Eigenvalue the focal point of the set.

But spent his days instead at a certain vegetation, talking with Eigenvalue, waiting for Paola to reveal how she fitted into this grand Gothic pile of inferences he was hard at work creating.

Early in May, Eigenvalue introduced Stencil to Bloody Chiclitz, president of Yoyodyne, Inc.

Stencil retold it, the yarn had undergone considerable change: had become, as Eigenvalue put it, Stencilized.

If that were the case then someday, possibly in the next rising period of history, when this Decadence was past and the planets were being colonized and the world at peace, a dental historian would mention Eigenvalue in a footnote as Patron of the Arts, discreet physician to the neo-Jacobean school.

May Eigenvalue introduced Stencil to Bloody Chiclitz, president of Yoyodyne, Inc.

I was studying the eigenvalue spectrum of the Taylor-Goldstein equation, trying to develop a new methodology for examining the stability of a particular class of fluid flows.

An eigenvalue is a number that tells you something about how a system responds when you disturb its equilibrium.

The answer lies somewhere in the field of eigenvalue mathematics, Fourier transforms, that sort of thing.

These vectors can be labeled by their eigenvalues under a set of commuting hermitian operators.

Among these operators are the Hamiltonian, whose eigenvalues give the energy and hence the mass of the vibrational state, as well as operators generating various gauge symmetries that the theory respects.

The eigenvalues of these latter operators give the force charges carried by the associated vibrational string state.

The solution results in eigenvalues of zero on both sides of the equation.

Wakefield claims the primes are eigenvalues of a Hermitian quantum operator associated with a classical Hamiltonian.

Generally, he shows that the primes are strictly analogous to eigenvalues of a Hermitian quantum operator associated with a classical Hamiltonian.