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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In mathematics, the result of subtracting the same indeterminate quantity, λ, from all the elements of the principal diagonal of a determinant, or of subtracting λ with numerical submultiples and alternating signs from the sinister diagonal. See latent root, under latent.

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