principal source

  • 1source — noun 1 where you get sth from ADJECTIVE ▪ excellent, fertile, good, great, lucrative, reliable, rich, valuable ▪ a fertile source of ideas …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 2principal — 1. adjective the principal cause of poor air quality Syn: main, chief, primary, leading, foremost, first, first line, most important, predominant, dominant, (most) prominent; key, crucial, vital, essential, basic, prime, central …

    Thesaurus of popular words

  • 3principal — prin|ci|pal1 W2 [ˈprınsıpəl] adj [only before noun] [Date: 1200 1300; : Old French; Origin: Latin principalis, from princeps; PRINCE] most important = ↑main ▪ His principal reason for making the journey was to visit his family. ▪ Teaching is her… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 4principal — [[t]prɪ̱nsɪp(ə)l[/t]] ♦♦♦ principals 1) ADJ: ADJ n Principal means first in order of importance. The principal reason for my change of mind is this. ...the country s principal source of foreign exchange earnings... Their principal concern is… …

    English dictionary

  • 5principal — 1 adjective (only before noun) most important; main: My principal source of income is teaching. | The principal character in the book is called Scarlett. see also: principally 2 noun 1 (singular) technical an amount of money lent to someone, put… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 6Principal components analysis — Principal component analysis (PCA) is a vector space transform often used to reduce multidimensional data sets to lower dimensions for analysis. Depending on the field of application, it is also named the discrete Karhunen Loève transform (KLT),… …

    Wikipedia

  • 7principal — prin·ci·pal 1 / prin sə pəl/ adj 1: being the main or most important, consequential, or influential their principal place of business the principal obligor 2: of, relating to, or constituting principal or a principal the principal amount of the… …

    Law dictionary

  • 8Source Code — Tren similar al de la película, en Chicago Título Código fuente (España) 8 minutos antes de morir (Latinoamérica) …

    Wikipedia Español

  • 9Source separation — problems in digital signal processing are those in which several signals have been mixed together and the objective is to find out what the original signals were. The classical example is the cocktail party problem , where a number of people are… …

    Wikipedia

  • 10source code escrow — USA An arrangement between the licensor and a licensee of a computer software application in which the licensor deposits a copy of the application source code (and related technical components and documentation) with an independent escrow agent.… …

    Law dictionary