determinant
nounEtymology
Borrowed from French déterminant, equivalent to determine + -ant.
- borrowed from déterminant
Definitions
A determining factor
A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something.
- The field of the social determinants of health is perhaps the most complex and challenging of all.
- The aim of this book has been to assess the determinants of capital punishment without taking a stand for or against the death penalty.
A scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a given transformation matrix
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.
- Using this definition, we derive the basic properties of a determinant that are useful in its evaluation. In particular, it is shown how the calculation of a determinant can be reduced to the calculation of determinants of lower order.
A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate.
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Something that causes a nuclease to cut at a specified point
Serving to determine or limit
Serving to determine or limit; determinative.
The neighborhood
Derived
allodeterminant, antideterminant, bideterminant, cytoplasmic determinant, determinantal, hyperdeterminant, immunodeterminant, macrodeterminant, microdeterminant, multideterminant, predeterminant, quasideterminant, serodeterminant, skew-symmetric determinant, Slater determinant, stereodeterminant, subdeterminant, superdeterminant
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