contragredient

Meaning

Adjective

  • Generally, an object inversed and transposed (to another).
  • Of a representation in linear algebra: being the transpose of the former representation of an inverse object.
  • Of a matrix: being a transpose of an inverse matrix.

Origin

  • Neologism based on Latin contra and gradi.

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