Semidefinite

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Half definite.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Describing a bilinear form, over a vector space, that is either always positive or always negative
  • Word Usage
    "Posted Oct 30, 2006 at 7:13 PM | Permalink | Reply so there must be weaker conditions than positive semidefinite which still generate positive eigenvalues."