Definitionen
1.AdjectivePrimary; most important; first level in importance."Smith is the principal architect of this design.; The principal cause of the failure was poor planning."
2.AdjectiveOf or relating to a prince; princely.
3.AdjectiveChosen 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."
4.NounThe 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."
5.NounThe chief administrator of a school.
6.NounThe chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
7.NounA 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."
8.NounThe primary participant in a crime.
9.NounEither party in a duel.
10.NounA partner or owner of a business.
11.NounA 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.
12.NounThe 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.
13.NounThe first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
14.NounOne of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned
15.NounAn essential point or rule; a principle.
16.NounA dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
17.NounA security principal.
18.NounA main character or lead actor.