Definitions from Wiktionary (principal part)

▸ noun:  (grammar, usually in the plural):
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Any one of however many parts of speech regarded as the most fundamental or indispensable.
▸ noun:  (rare) The noun, verb, or adverb.
▸ noun:  The noun or the verb.
▸ noun:  Any of the forms of a word which contain its stem(s) in the simplest form, or such a form that, when taken with all the other principal parts (showing various inflections), allows the entire paradigm to be derived.
▸ noun:  (mathematics) A polynomial approximation of a power series, made up of monomials whose indices lie in the Newton diagram of the power series and which occur with the same coefficients as in the original power series.
▸ noun:  (mathematics) The portion of a Laurent series that has negative exponents.
▸ noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see principal, part.



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