principal part English

Meaning principal part meaning

What does principal part mean?

principal part noun

— (grammar, usually plural) Any of the forms of a word which contain its stem(s) in the simplest form, or such a form that, when taken with all the other principal parts, allows the entire paradigm to be derived.

— (mathematics) A polynomial approximation of a power series, made up of monomials whose indices lie in the Curve sketching#Newton's diagram of the power series and which occur with the same coefficients as in the original power series.

— (mathematics) The portion of a Laurent series that has negative exponents.

— mathematics: portion of a Laurent series that has negative exponents

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