WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026
Gram′-Schmidt′ orthogonaliza′tion
(gram′shmit′),USA pronunciation [Math.]
- Mathematicsa process for constructing an orthogonal basis for a Euclidean space, given any basis for the space.
- named after Jörgen Pedersen Gram (1850–1916), Danish mathematician, and Erhard Schmidt (1876–1959), German mathematician