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Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *swé? Proto-Indo-European *selbʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *selbaz Old English self Old English self- Middle English self- English self- English adjoint English self-adjoint From self- + adjoint.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Adjoint to itself.
2. (not-comparable, qualifier:functional analysis) Being a Hilbert space operator which is Hermitian and also whose eigenvectors span the entire Hilbert space.

Deriveds

self-adjointness

Translations (3)

fr autoadjoint (Translations) · de selbstadjungiert (Translations) · bg самоспрегнат (Translations)