Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

positive-definite

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English

Syllables: pos-i-tive-def-i-nite
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

6

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Said of a real, square matrix: that the product of it with a column vector on its right side and the transpose of that column vector on its left side is greater or equal to zero, only equaling zero if the vector itself is zero.

adj

Said of a quadratic form: that the application of it to a tuple is greater or equal to zero, only equaling zero if the tuple itself is zero.

Inflected Forms

positive definite (alternative)

Antonyms

negative-definite

Questions

What does positive-definite mean?: Said of a real, square matrix: that the product of it with a column vector on its right side and the transpose of that column vector on its left side is greater or equal to zero, only equaling zero if the vector itself is zero.

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