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Adjugate vs Adjuvate - What's the difference?

adjugate | adjuvate |

As verbs the difference between adjugate and adjuvate

is that adjugate is (obsolete) to yoke an animal to something while adjuvate is to help; to further.

As a noun adjugate

is (mathematics) the transpose of the respective cofactor matrix, for a given matrix one of the factors in calculating the inverse of a matrix commonly notated as adj(a'), where ' a is the given matrix.

adjugate

English

Verb

(adjugat)
  • (obsolete) To yoke an animal to something

    • Noun

    (Adjugate matrix) (en noun)
  • (mathematics) The transpose of the respective cofactor matrix, for a given matrix. One of the factors in calculating the inverse of a matrix. Commonly notated as adj(A'), where ' A is the given matrix.

    • adjuvate

    English

    Verb

    (adjuvat)
  • To help; to further.
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