characteristic root


nounMathematics.
  1. 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.

  2. a root of the characteristic equation of a given matrix.

Origin of characteristic root

1
First recorded in 1955–60

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