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self-adjoint

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.31 in modern English

Syllables
self--ad-joint
IPA
22
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Adjoint to itself.

adj

Being a Hilbert space operator which is Hermitian and also whose eigenvectors span the entire Hilbert space.

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English adjoint English self-adjoint From self- + adjoint.

Phrases

self-adjointness

Questions

What does self-adjoint mean?
Adjoint to itself.
Where does self-adjoint come from?
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English adjoint English self-adjoint From self- + adjoint.

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