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Lagrangian
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lagrangian
English
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Etymology
en :af Lagrange -ian + 1
en eponyms en Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia Italian nautralist = Joseph-Louis Lagrange who became a Frenchman. From en fr Lagrange, from en it Lagrangia. en Lagrangia -ian.
Pronunciation
en /ləˈɡɹɑ(ː)nd͡ʒi.ən/ /ləˈɡɹeɪnd͡ʒi.ən/ /læˈɡɹɑ̃ʒi.ən/
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Adjective
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Of or relating to en Joseph Louis Lagrange Giuseppe Luigi Lagrangia.
en 2018 Lars Ljungqvist and Thomas J. Sargent Recursive macroeconomic theory 4th MIT Press 129 After studying a recursive formulation and the associated Bellman equation, in section 5.5 we analyze a Lagrangian formulation that provides useful insights about how Lagrange multipliers on transition laws relate to gradients of value functions.
en mechanics Relating to Lagrangian mechanics.
en Lagrange points en astrophysics Of or relating to a Lagrange point.
en Trojan
Derived terms
en Lagrangian asteroid Lagrangian density Lagrangian mechanics Lagrangian moon Lagrangian planet Lagrangian test
Noun
en mathematics en Lagrangian function.
en mechanics specifically A function summarizing the dynamics of a physical system, typically in non-relativistic contexts amounting to the kinetic energy minus the potential energy, .
en Lagrange points en astrophysics An object residing in a Lagrange point.
en Trojan
en Lagrange points en astrophysics en Lagrangian point a Lagrange point.
en quantum physics en Lagrangian density.
Translations
function Lagrangian function