Householder may refer to: *Householder, a person who is the head of a

household A household consists of two or more persons who live in the same dwelling. It may be of a single family or another type of person group. The household is the basic unit of analysis in many social, microeconomic and government models, and is im ...

Householder (Buddhism) In English translations of Buddhist texts, householder denotes a variety of terms. Most broadly, it refers to any layperson, and most narrowly, to a wealthy and prestigious familial patriarch. In contemporary Buddhist communities, householder is ...

, a Buddhist term most broadly referring to any layperson * Householder (surname), notable people with the surname *''

The Householder ''The Householder'' (Hindi title: ''Gharbar'') is a 1963 film by Merchant Ivory Productions, with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala and James Ivory, and direction of James Ivory. It is based upon the 1960 novel of the same name by Jhabvala. ...

'', a 1963 Indian English/Hindi language film * ''The Householder'' (novel), a 1960 novel by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala; basis for the film *

Householder transformation In linear algebra, a Householder transformation (also known as a Householder reflection or elementary reflector) is a linear transformation that describes a reflection about a plane or hyperplane containing the origin. The Householder transformati ...

, an algorithm in numerical linear algebra * Grihastha, the second phase of an individual's life in the Hindu ashrama system

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