Showing results for characteristic polynomial. Search instead for biquadratic polynomial.

characteristic polynomial

American

noun

Mathematics.

an expression obtained from a given matrix by taking the determinant of the difference between the matrix and an arbitrary variable times the identity matrix.

First recorded in 1955–60

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023