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Meaning of
adjoints
in English
adjoints
us
/əˈdʾɔɪnts/
uk
/əˈdʒɔɪnts/
#uncommon
Definitions
Noun
helpers
in
various
official
contexts
The
governor
appointed
several
adjoints
to
assist
with
administrative
tasks
.
a
military
or
civil
service
assistant
In
the
army
,
adjoints
play
a
crucial
role
in
supporting
high-ranking
officers
.
a
French
commune's
assistant
mayor
The
adjoints
of
the
mayor
helped
to
organize
community
events
.
conjugate
transpose
of
a
matrix
In
linear
algebra
,
the
adjoints
of
a
matrix
are
used
to
calculate
its
inverse
.
hermitian
conjugate
of
an
operator
In
mathematics
,
the
adjoints
of
an
operator
are
used
to
study
its
properties
.
transpose
of
a
matrix's
cofactor
matrix
;
mathematical
operation
The
adjoints
of
a
matrix
are
calculated
by
taking
the
transpose
of
its
cofactor
matrix
.
a
functor
related
to
another
by
adjunction
In
category
theory
,
adjoints
are
functors
that
are
related
to
each
other
by
adjunction
.
a
curve
related
to
another
curve's
multiplicity
The
adjoints
of
a
curve
are
used
to
study
the
multiplicity
of
another
curve
.
