main diagonal
Noun
Meaning
the diagonal of a square matrix running from the upper left entry to the lower right entry
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This follows immediately from the fact that transposing a square matrix does not affect elements along the main diagonal.
This implies that the (i, j)th entry of the table equals the (j, i)th entry, thus the table is symmetric about the main diagonal.
This is the "main diagonal" going through the origin.