Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tridiagonal

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.19 in modern English

Syllables: tridi-ag-o-nal
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

4

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Having nonzero elements only in the main diagonal and the diagonals directly above and below it.

Example Sentences

"The following proposition shows a connection between negafibonacci numbers and the determinants of a family of tridiagonal matrices."

Etymology

From tri- + diagonal.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: tri-

Derived Forms

tridiagonality tridiagonalization

Questions

What does tridiagonal mean?: Having nonzero elements only in the main diagonal and the diagonals directly above and below it.
Where does tridiagonal come from?: From tri- + diagonal.

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