Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 1. One who is joined or associated with another as a helper; an adjunct.
- noun In France, specifically — An assistant of or substitute for the mayor of a commune, or in Paris of an arrondissement. An assistant professor in a college.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An adjunct; a helper.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective mathematics used in several situations with a meaning similar to
helping - noun mathematics A
matrix in which eachelement is thecofactor of an associated element of another matrix. - noun An
assistant mayor of a Frenchcommune
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Examples
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His adjoint was the Colonel Comte de Mazancourt, his aide-de-camp
The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 Fanny Burney 1796
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_Combat_, signed by the "adjoint" of the 13th arrondissement.
Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris Henry Labouchere 1871
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The parameter Lambda of gauge transformation in this three-algebra realm have two "adjoint" indices instead of one.
The Reference Frame 2010
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It is as though every Idea has two faces, which are like love and anger: love in search of the fragments, the progressive determination and linking of the ideal adjoint fields; anger in the condensation of singularities which, by dint of ideal events, defines the concentration of a "revolutionary situation" and causes the Idea to explode into the actual.
Notes on 'Repetition, Representation and Revolution: Deleuze and Blake's _America_' 2008
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There remains to recover, e.g., the representation of “observables” by self-adjoint operators, and the dynamics (unitary evolution).
Puppet X: 1 2009
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It is not difficult to show that a self-adjoint operator P with spectrum contained in the two-point set {0,1} must be a projection; i.e.,
Puppet X: 1 2009
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Each bounded simple random variable f gives rise to a bounded self-adjoint operator A =
Puppet X: 1 2009
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Studying the properties off these observations one sees that they satisfy the necessary axioms to be linear operators, and, in fact, self-adjoint operators.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Quantum Mechanics, But Were Afraid to Ask Sean 2008
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Controls on ocean productivity and air-sea carbon flux: An adjoint model sensitivity study.
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Pauli pointed out that a (self-adjoint) time operator is incompatible with a Hamiltonian spectrum bounded below.
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