Principial vs. Principal
Difference Between Principial and Principal
Principialadjective
(obsolete) elementary
Principaladjective
Primary; most important.
Smith is the principal architect of this design.The principal cause of the failure was poor planning.Principaladjective
Of or relating to a prince; princely.
Principalnoun
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.Principalnoun
The chief administrator of a school.
Principalnoun
The chief executive and chief academic officer of a university or college.
Principalnoun
(legal) A legal person that authorizes another (the agent) to act on one′s 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.Principalnoun
(legal) The primary participant in a crime.
Principalnoun
(North America) A partner or owner of a business.
Principalnoun
(music) A diapason, a type of organ stop on a pipe organ.
Principalnoun
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.
Principalnoun
The first two long feathers of a hawk's wing.
Principalnoun
One of the turrets or pinnacles of waxwork and tapers with which the posts and centre of a funeral hearse were formerly crowned.
Principalnoun
(obsolete) An essential point or rule; a principle.
Principalnoun
A dancer at the highest rank within a professional dance company, particularly a ballet company.
Principalnoun
(computing) A security principal.
Principalnoun
the original amount of a debt on which interest is calculated
Principalnoun
the educator who has executive authority for a school;
she sent unruly pupils to see the principalPrincipalnoun
an actor who plays a principal role
Principalnoun
capital as contrasted with the income derived from it
Principalnoun
the major party to a financial transaction at a stock exchange; buys and sells for his own account
Principaladjective
most important element;
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