Определение слова «principal» на английский

adjective

1. Primary; most important; first level in importance.

   • Smith is the principal architect of this design.
   • The principal cause of the failure was poor planning.

2. (obsolete, Latinism) Of or relating to a prince; princely.

3. (mathematics) Chosen or assumed among a branch of possible values of a multi-valued function so that the function is single-valued.

   • Two is the principal square root of 4. Both −2 and +2 are square roots of 4.

noun

1. (finance, uncountable) The money originally invested or loaned, on which basis interest and returns are calculated.

   • A portion of your mortgage payment goes to reduce the principal, and the rest covers interest.
   • 2012, Denis Clifford, Plan Your Estate, 11th Edition, NOLO, US, page 298, For instance, in some states, dividends that have automatically been reinvested will be treated as principal.
   • Coordinate term: interest

2. (Canada, US, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines) The chief administrator of a school.

   • 2011, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook 2011-2012, page 45, Principals are now being held more accountable for the performance of students and teachers, while at the same time they are required to adhere to a growing number of government regulations.

3. (UK, Canada) The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.

   • 1967, University of Edinburgh Graduates′ Association, University of Edinburgh Journal, Volumes 23-24, page 314, Unlike the students, Principal Robertson, who now resided almost alone in the College, continued to use the accustomed route on his visits to the Old Town; and it “became the joke of the day that from being the principal gate it had become only a gate for the Principal.”⁵
   • Coordinate term: bursar

4. (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.

   • When an attorney represents a client, the client is the principal who permits the attorney, the client′s agent, to act on the client′s behalf.
   • My principal sells metal shims.
   • 2009, California Continuing Education of the Bar, California Probate Code, page 375, An attorney-in-fact has a duty to act solely in yhe interest of the principal and to avoid conflicts of interest.

5. (law) The primary participant in a crime.

6. Either party in a duel.

7. (Canada, US) A partner or owner of a business.

8. (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.

9. (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.

10. The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.

11. One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned

12. (obsolete) An essential point or rule; a principle.

13. A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.

14. (computing) A security principal.

15. A main character or lead actor.