行列

行列

1. row or column
2. ranks; procession; rows

   加入他們的行列 [MSC, trad.]
   加入他们的行列 [MSC, simp.]

   jiārù tāmen de hángliè [Pinyin]

   to join them

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行列

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From Old Japanese, in turn from Middle Chinese 行列 (MC haeng ljet). First attested in Japanese in 749.^[1]

The date of the mathematical sense is uncertain. Matrices for calculation were long known in Chinese mathematics, and were used to solve systems of linear equations in the work 九章算術／九章算术 (“The Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art”), compiled from the 10th through the 2nd centuries BCE. The component terms 行 and 列 (liè) are both used in that text, but not in the particular combination of 行列 (hángliè) (see also Wikisource). The first Japanese work on this aspect of mathematics was a 1683 text by 関孝和 (Seki Takakazu), but it is not yet clear if this text includes the term 行列 (gyōretsu) with the sense of matrix.

• (Tokyo) ぎょーれつ [gyòórétsú] (Heiban – [0])^[2][3][4]
• IPA^(key): [ɡʲo̞ːɾe̞t͡sɨ]

行(ぎょう)列(れつ) • (gyōretsu) ^{←ぎやうれつ (gyauretu)?}

1. [from 1870s] a line or queue, a procession in single file
2. [from 749] a ceremonial procession

   Synonym: 鹵簿 (robo)

3. [date uncertain] (mathematics) a matrix

行(ぎょう)列(れつ)する • (gyōretsu suru) ^{←ぎやうれつ (gyauretu)?}suru (stem 行(ぎょう)列(れつ)し (gyōretsu shi), past 行(ぎょう)列(れつ)した (gyōretsu shita))

1. [from 1870s] to form a line, to proceed in single file

• 2002, Ineko Kondō; Fumi Takano; Mary E Althaus; et. al., Shogakukan Progressive Japanese-English Dictionary, Third Edition, Tokyo: Shōgakukan, →ISBN.