involutant Math.
(ɪnvəˈl(j)uːtənt)
[f. L. involūt-, ppl. stem of involvĕre to involve + -ant: see involution 6 a, and cf. determinant, etc.]
(See quot.)
| 1890 Taber in Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. XXII. 73 The involutant of m, n, two matrices of order ω, is the resultant of the ω2 scalar equations obtained by equating to zero a linear function with scalar coefficients of the ω2 matrices which result from multiplying 1, m, m2,{ddd}mω-1 into 1, n, n2,{ddd}nω-1. |