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  • verb Alternative spelling of diagonalize.

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  • verb transform a matrix to a diagonal matrix

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  • Empire and another by England, if he move at all, Heaven stay him, is fain to diagonalise.

    Becket and other plays Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850

  • The spectral theorem for unitary matrices allows each of these matrices to be diagonalised; as is abelian, the matrices commute and so one can simultaneously diagonalise these matrices.

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  • Exercise 24 (Regularity transforms to decay) 24 shows that Fourier transforms diagonalise differentiation, when viewed in frequency space, become nothing more than multiplication operators diagonal matrices.)

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