adjugate

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adjugate

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From Latin adjugatus.

verb adjugates · adjugating · adjugated

obsolete To yoke an animal to something

noun adjugates

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.

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@misc{adjugate_2026,
  title = {adjugate},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/adjugate},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}