Determinant
WordNet
adjective
(1) Having the power or quality of deciding
"The crucial experiment"
"Cast the deciding vote"
"The determinative (or determinant) battle"
noun
(2) A determining or causal element or factor
"Education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life"
(3) A square matrix used to solve simultaneous equations
(4) The site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself
WiktionaryText
Noun
- A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something
- The unique scalar function over square matrices which is distributive over matrix multiplication, multilinear in the rows and columns, and takes the value of 1 for the unit matrix. Abbreviation: det
- A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate.
See also
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Noun
determinant , plural determinanty, stem determinant, determinantu
- For declension pattern see
- determining factor
- determinant
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Noun
determinant (pl determinanter def sing determinanten def pl determinanterna)
- determinant