idle vs transpose

idle

adj
  • Not engaged in any occupation or employment; unemployed; inactive; doing nothing in particular. 

  • Not being used appropriately; not occupied; (of time) with no, no important, or not much activity. 

  • Averse to work, labor or employment; lazy; slothful. 

  • Of no importance; useless; worthless; vain; trifling; thoughtless; silly. 

noun
  • An idle game. 

  • The lowest selectable thrust or power setting of an engine. 

  • The state of idling, of being idle. 

  • An idle animation. 

verb
  • To spend in idleness; to waste; to consume. 

  • Of an engine: to run at a slow speed, or out of gear; to tick over. 

  • To lose or spend time doing nothing, or without being employed in business. 

transpose

verb
  • To rewrite or perform (a piece) in another key. 

  • To rearrange elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators. 

  • To give force to a directive by passing appropriate implementation measures. 

  • To reach a position that may also be obtained from a different move order. 

  • To reverse or change the order of (two or more things); to swap or interchange. 

  • To move (a term) from one side of an algebraic equation to the other, reversing the sign of the term. 

noun
  • The process of rearranging elements in a matrix, by interchanging their respective row and column positional indicators. 

  • The resulting matrix, derived from performing a transpose operation on a given matrix. 

adj
  • A matrix with the characteristic of having been transposed from a given matrix. 

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