How to pronounce “principal”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• Primary; most important; first level in importance.
• (obsolete, Latinism) Of or relating to a prince; princely.
• (mathematics) Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.
• [Noun]
• (finance, uncountable) The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.
• (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) The chief administrator of a school.
• (UK, Canada) The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
• (law) A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on their behalf; or on whose behalf an agent or gestor in a negotiorum gestio acts.
• (law) The primary participant in a crime.
• Either party in a duel.
• (Canada, US) A partner or owner of a business.
• (music) A type of stop on a pipe organ consisting of flue pipes with a bright tonal quality. They are also sometimes referred to as a diapason.
• (architecture, engineering) The construction that gives shape and strength to a roof, generally a truss of timber or iron; or, loosely, the most important member of a piece of framing.
• The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
• One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned[1]
• (obsolete) An essential point or rule; a principle.
• A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
• (computing) A security principal.
• A main character or lead actor.

Practice Nearby Words

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