contragredient

  1. Adjective.  (mathematics) Generally, an object contragredient to another is the object inversed and transposed.
  2. Adjective.  (mathematics) A contragredient representation in linear algebra is the transpose of the former representation of an inverse object.
  3. Adjective.  (mathematics) A contragredient matrix is a transpose of an inverse matrix.

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