Meaning

2 senses
  1. (not comparable)Not entirely definite; somewhat vague or undefined.

  2. (not comparable)Describing a bilinear form, over a vector space, that is either always nonnegative or always nonpositive.

Examples

1 sentences
  1. A diagonal matrix is positive semidefinite if and only if all of its elements are nonnegative.

    ruДиагональная матрица является неотрицательно определённой тогда и только тогда, когда все её элементы неотрицательны.

    deEine Diagonalmatrix ist dann und nur dann positiv semidefinit, wenn alle ihre Einträge nichtnegativ sind.

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Origin

From semi- + definite.

From semi- + definite.

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