pseudoreflection
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
4
Syllables
13
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An invertible linear transformation of a finite-dimensional vector space such that it is not the identity transformation, has a finite (multiplicative) order, and fixes a hyperplane.
Example Sentences
- "That is, t′x+y=0 is the pseudo-reflection of tx+y=0 if the ideal points (ρ′,1,0),(ρ,1,0) on the lines are a pair in the involution ρρ′=-h."
- "A linear transformation g∈BL(V) is a pseudoreflection if rank (g-I)=1."
- "It will be convenient to introduce two generalizations of the notion of pseudoreflection."
Etymology
From pseudo- + reflection.