Diagonal vs Tridiagonal - What's the difference?
diagonal | tridiagonal |
(geometry) Joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron).
Having a slanted or oblique direction, lines or markings.
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Pertaining to the front left and back right (or the front right and back left) legs of a quadruped.
something arranged diagonally or obliquely
a line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
a punctuation mark used to separate related items of information
(geometry) a diagonal line or plane
(geometry) a line joining non-adjacent vertices of a polygon.
(linear algebra, of a matrix) Having nonzero elements only in the main diagonal and the diagonals directly above and below it.
As adjectives the difference between diagonal and tridiagonal
is that diagonal is (geometry) joining two nonadjacent vertices (of a polygon or polyhedron) while tridiagonal is (linear algebra|of a matrix) having nonzero elements only in the main diagonal and the diagonals directly above and below it.As a noun diagonal
is something arranged diagonally or obliquely.diagonal
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(wikipedia diagonal)Adjective
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