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principal value
noun
, Mathematics.
- a value selected at a point in the domain of a multiple-valued function, chosen so that the function has a single value at the point.
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This, perhaps, is its principal value, since the mind reasons instinctively without knowing how it reasons.
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Then I began to live for the effect I imagined I made upon her, to make that very soon the principal value in my life.
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This reaction was not helped by the British retreat on Lanrezac's left, and its principal value was to protect that withdrawal.
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They all prefer moist, rich soil and have their principal value as decorative trees on the lawn.
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These, with a few emblematic figures, all admirably well executed, make its principal value.
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