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duals

/ˈduːəlz/ /ˈdjuːəlz/

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noun

Jumelle, élément d'une paire

Of an item that is one of a pair, the other item in the pair.

Examples :

"My shoes are a pair; the left shoe is one of the duals to the right shoe. "

Mes chaussures sont une paire ; la chaussure gauche est l'élément d'une paire de la chaussure droite.

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noun

Duaux

Of a regular polyhedron with V vertices and F faces, the regular polyhedron having F vertices and V faces.

Examples :

"The octahedron is the dual of the cube."

L'octaèdre est le dual du cube.

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noun

Duel, nombre duel

(grammar) dual number The grammatical number of a noun marking two of something (as in singular, dual, plural), sometimes referring to two of anything (a couple of, exactly two of), or a chirality-marked pair (as in left and right, as with gloves or shoes) or in some languages as a discourse marker, "between you and me". A few languages display trial number.

Examples :

""Ancient Greek used duals when referring to exactly two of something, like 'two hands' or 'two eyes'." "

Le grec ancien utilisait le duel pour désigner exactement deux éléments, comme 'deux mains' ou 'deux yeux'.

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Fonctionnelle linéaire, dual

Of a vector in an inner product space, the linear functional corresponding to taking the inner product with that vector. The set of all duals is a vector space called the dual space.

Examples :

"In linear algebra homework, we often calculate the duals of given vectors to explore the relationship between vectors and linear transformations. "

Dans les devoirs d'algèbre linéaire, nous calculons souvent les fonctionnelles linéaires des vecteurs donnés pour explorer la relation entre les vecteurs et les transformations linéaires.

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