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Definition of adjoint:

(n) : An assistant to someone who holds a position in the military or civil service.
(n) : An assistant mayor of a French commune.
(adj) : (mathematics) Used in certain contexts, in each case involving a pair of transformations, one of which is, or is analogous to, conjugation (either inner automorphism or complex conjugation).
(adj) : (mathematics, category theory, of a functor) That is related to another functor by an adjunction.
(n) : (mathematics) The transpose of the cofactor matrix of a given square matrix.
(n) : (mathematics, linear algebra, of a matrix) Transpose conjugate.

Definition of adjoint:

(n) : An assistant to someone who holds a position in the military or civil service.
(n) : An assistant mayor of a French commune.
(adj) : (mathematics) Used in certain contexts, in each case involving a pair of transformations, one of which is, or is analogous to, conjugation (either inner automorphism or complex conjugation).
(adj) : (mathematics, category theory, of a functor) That is related to another functor by an adjunction.
(n) : (mathematics) The transpose of the cofactor matrix of a given square matrix.
(n) : (mathematics, linear algebra, of a matrix) Transpose conjugate.

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