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characteristic root
noun
, Mathematics.
- a scalar for which there exists a nonzero vector such that the scalar times the vector equals the value of the vector under a given linear transformation on a vector space.
- a root of the characteristic equation of a given matrix.
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Origin of characteristic root1
First recorded in 1955–60
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