determinant
Pronunciation: /dɪˈtɜːmɪnənt/
The English word “determinant” has 5 meanings listed here.
noun
- A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something.
- A scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a given transformation matrix; the unique scalar function over square matrices which is distributive over matrix multiplication, multilinear in the rows and columns, and takes the value 1 for the unit matrix; abbreviated as: det.
- A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate.
- Something that causes a nuclease to cut at a specified point
adjective
- Serving to determine or limit; determinative.
Etymology
Borrowed from French déterminant, equivalent to determine + -ant.
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- determinablist
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- determinate verb
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