normaloid

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English

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Etymology

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From normal +‎ -oid.

Adjective

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normaloid (not comparable)

  1. (mathematics) Of a bounded linear operator, having a norm equal to its spectral radius.
    • 2015, Aref Jeribi, editor, Applied Mathematics in Tunisia, page 10:
      A bounded linear operator , defined on a complex infinite dimensional Banach space , is said to be normaloid if the spectral radius of .
    • 2015, Mahsa Fatehi, Mahmood Haji Shaabani, “Normal, cohyponormal and normaloid weighted composition operators on the Hardy and weighted Bergman spaces”, in arXiv[1]:
      In this paper, we study normal, cohyponormal, hyponormal and normaloid weighted composition operators on the Hardy and weighted Bergman spaces.

Noun

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normaloid (plural normaloids)

  1. (mathematics) A bounded linear operator having a norm equal to its spectral radius.
  2. (slang) A boringly conventional or conformist person; a normie.
    • 1982, Paul Barker, The Other Britain, page 58:
      It became fashionable again, for a time, to say you were an anarchist, to spit in the face of the normaloids.
    • 2011, Bruce L. Gary, Genetic Enslavement, page 1:
      If you are like that clueless 99% of humans, those I call “normaloids,” then let me suggest that you abandon this book and resume your pathetic, unthinking life!