adjoint /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɔɪnt/noun 7adjective 3forms 1 noun7 •The transpose of the cofactor matrix of a given square matrix. •An assistant to someone who holds a position in the military or civil service.. Nominated the citizens Fayolles, captain of infantry, and Favery of the Engineers to be my adjoints, and dispatched the letters of nomination to the Minister at War, so now I am fairly afloat. — 1798 •An assistant mayor of a French commune.A vigorous, aggressive, and ambitious mayor will not rely overmuch upon his adjoints, but a mayor of the more passive type will lean heavily upon them. — 1929 •Transpose conjugate. •Hermitian conjugate. •A functor related to another functor by an adjunction. •A curve A such that any point of a given curve C of multiplicity r has multiplicity at least r–1 on A. Sometimes the multiple points of C are required to be ordinary, and if this condition is not satisfied the term sub-adjoint is used. adjective3 •Used in certain contexts, in each case involving a pair of transformations, one of which is, or is analogous to, conjugation (either inner automorphism or complex conjugation). •That is related to another functor by an adjunction. •Having a relationship of the nature of an adjoint (adjoint curve); sharing multiple points with.This imposes n(n - 3)/2 conditions on the n-gon adjoint curve. — 2016 formsadjoints
