Definition of differential operator in US English:
differential operator
nounˈˌdifəˈren(t)SHəl ˈäpəˌrādər
Mathematics another term for del
Example sentencesExamples
- And we all know that the Laplacian operator is by far the most important differential operator in Mathematical Physics.
- He showed how to extend Laplace's series to give a perturbing function in the case of elliptical orbits by introducing differential operators which act on the Laplace coefficients.
- He used what he called the ‘fluxio-differential’ method, so called because it used two independent first-order Leibniz type differential operators.
- In these papers a special role is played by expansions in terms of the eigenfunctions of linear differential operators.
- Formal properties of differential operators are studied in many of his contributions, in particular in his early papers he worked on commuting differential operators.