sesquilinear
English
Etymology
sesqui- (“one and a half”) + linear; “conjugate linear” being considered metaphorically “half linear”, hence one and a half times linear, as opposed to bilinear (“linear in both variables”).
Adjective
sesquilinear (not comparable)
- (mathematics) (of a map of a complex vector space) Linear in one coordinate and conjugate linear in the other
Coordinate terms
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