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proper value

n. (context historical linear algebra English) An eigenvalue

Usage examples of "proper value".

Carefully watching his Dopler groundspeed readout, he nudged the throttle of his twin Kuznetsov NK-144 turbofans up until the groundspeed read the proper value, then reset the Backfire's wings until the proper launch angle of attack was reestablished.

In the process of becoming slaves to machines, we transferred technical knowledge to them -- without imparting proper value systems.

In the process of becoming slaves to machines, we transferred tech' nical knowledge to themwithout imparting proper value systems.

And herein it is necessary to remember that the attention given to everything has its proper value and proportion.

The farmer was loath to sell, and on being pressed, demanded a price that was nearly three times the proper value, but Gussy had no intention of being caught by the Germans if he could possibly help it and during the early hours of the morning the firing had sounded considerably nearer.

It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

It had made him conceited, and it had rendered him the object of many flattering attentions, which he was not wise enough to estimate at their proper value.