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sesquilinear

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
sesquilin-ear
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

(of a map of a complex vector space) Linear in one coordinate and conjugate linear in the other

Etymology

From sesqui- (“one and a half”) + linear; “conjugate linear” being considered metaphorically “half linear”, hence one and a half times linear, as opposed to bilinear (“linear in both variables”).

Word Breakdown

Frequently Paired Words

bilinear

Questions

What does sesquilinear mean?
(of a map of a complex vector space) Linear in one coordinate and conjugate linear in the other
Where does sesquilinear come from?
From sesqui- (“one and a half”) + linear; “conjugate linear” being considered metaphorically “half linear”, hence one and a half times linear, as opposed to bilinear (“linear in both variables”).

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