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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A square matrix with 1's along the diagonal from upper left to lower right and 0's in all other positions, constituting the identity element for matrix multiplication.
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- noun linear algebra A
diagonal matrix all of thediagonal elements of which are equal to 1.
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- noun a scalar matrix in which all of the diagonal elements are unity
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