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Abjoint vs Adjoint - What's the difference?

abjoint | adjoint |

As a verb abjoint

is to form by cutting off as a protrusion from a parent cell.

As an adjective adjoint is

used in several situations with a meaning similar to helping.

As a noun adjoint is

a matrix in which each element is the cofactor of an associated element of another matrix.

abjoint

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (transitive, botany, mycology) To form by cutting off as a protrusion from a parent cell.
  • (intransitive, botany, mycology) To separate from the hypha of a fungus by the formation of a septum.
  • adjoint

    Adjective

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  • (mathematics) used in several situations with a meaning similar to helping
  • Derived terms

    () * adjoint matrix * adjoint operator * adjoint functor * coadjoint * self-adjoint

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mathematics) A matrix in which each element is the cofactor of an associated element of another matrix.
  • (geometry) A curve such that any point of another curve C'' of multiplicity ''r'' has multiplicity at least ''r''–1 on the adjoint. Sometimes the multiple points of ''C are required to be ordinary, and if this condition is not satisfied the term "sub-adjoint" is used.
  • An assistant mayor of a French commune.
  • Derived terms

    () * biadjoint

    References

    * MathWorld ----