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dual (EN)
Adjektiv, Substantiv

Adjektiv “dual”

Grundform dual, nicht steigerbar
  1. doppelt
    The smartphone features a dual-camera system for better photo quality.
  2. Dual (im grammatikalischen Sinne)
    In Ancient Greek, nouns had a dual form to specifically denote two items, like two eyes or two hands.
  3. dual (im mathematischen und physikalischen Kontext)
    In quantum mechanics, particles have a dual nature, behaving both as particles and waves.
  4. dual (im Kontext der linearen Algebra)
    In linear algebra, the concept of duality is illustrated by how every vector space has a corresponding dual space consisting of all its linear functionals.

Substantiv “dual”

Sg. dual, Pl. duals od. unz.
  1. Dual (in der Geometrie)
    In geometry, the dodecahedron and the icosahedron are duals, with the number of faces and vertices swapped between them.
  2. Dual (im mathematischen Kontext, bezogen auf Vektoren)
    In our project, we explored how each vector in our dataset has a corresponding dual in the dual space, which we used to calculate inner products efficiently.