Principal

Principal (from Latin principalis , literally "first, noblest" or "chief" and also translated "head" or "master") stands for:

• important organ registers, see principal (organ)
• a grape variety, see principal (grape variety)
• a term from the field of information security, see principal (computer security)

in the broader sense for:

• an independent theater director
• the section leader of an instrument group in an orchestra, see section leader (orchestra)
• in the Anglo-Saxon area a school or university director, see Rector #Academic offices
• the client in the economic and social science principal-agent theory
• a concept underlying a structure that can be summarized taxonomically, e.g. B. Security principals in firewalls
• outdated: teacher , headmaster , business owner , supervisor
• Commercial Code (§§ 55, 60 ff., 74 ff. HGB): Owner of a commercial enterprise ( entrepreneur ; legal definition in § 55 HGB), client or businessman

See also:

• Principal
• Princeps , Princeps
• principle
• Principals

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.