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determinant

UK /dɪˈtɜːmɪnənt/US /dɪˈtɝmɪnənt/

noun 4
adjective 1
forms 3

noun4

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A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something.
- Shields and Young (1993) argue that the budget participation literature "has not produced a coherent nor unified definition" of both the determinants and consequences of budget participation. — 1999
A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate.
Something that causes a nuclease to cut at a specified point
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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.
- The determinant of a square matrix A_(n) is a function (actually a polynomial function) of the elements a_ij of A. — 1966

adjective1

Serving to determine or limit; determinative.

forms

determinants · more determinant · most determinant

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