adj
Meaning 1
Serving to determine or limit; determinative.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Standard Lemma guide
determinant
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noun
Meaning 2
A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1999, Noah P. Barsky, Stuart Bruchey (editor), Organizational Determinants of Budgetary Influence and Involvement, Taylor & Francis (Garland Publishing), page 4, 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.
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noun
Meaning 3
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: linear-algebra, mathematics, sciences
Examples
- 1966 [Allyn & Bacon], Howard Whitley Eves, Elementary Matrix Theory, 1980, Dover, Unabridged corrected republication, page 165, The determinant of a square matrix A_(n) is a function (actually a polynomial function) of the elements a_ij of A.
- 1990, Assem S. Deif, Advanced Matrix Theory for Scientists and Engineers, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers (Abacus Press), 2nd Edition, page 18, Show that the determinant of a Hermitian matrix is real and that of a skew-Hermitian matrix is imaginary.
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noun
Meaning 4
A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, natural-sciences
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noun
Meaning 5
Something that causes a nuclease to cut at a specified point
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: biology, genetics, medicine, natural-sciences, sciences
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adjective satellite
Meaning 6
having the power or quality of deciding
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the crucial experiment
- cast the deciding vote
- the determinative (or determinant) battle
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: deciding(a), determinative, determining(a)
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 7
a determining or causal element or factor
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: determiner, determinative, determining factor, causal factor
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: cognitive factor
Narrower terms: clincher, decisive factor, influence
noun
Meaning 8
a square matrix used to solve simultaneous equations
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: square matrix
noun
Meaning 9
the site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: antigenic determinant, epitope
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: site, situation
History
Etymology
Borrowed from French déterminant, equivalent to determine + -ant.
Across languages
Translations
42 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مُحَدِّدٌ (muḥaddidun) — determining factor
- Bulgarian: определител (opredelitel) — determining factor
- Chinese Mandarin: 決定(性)因素 /决定(性)因素 — determining factor
- Finnish: määräävä tekijä — determining factor
- Finnish: ratkaiseva tekijä — determining factor
- French: déterminant — determining factor
- Hungarian: meghatározó — determining factor
- Indonesian: determinan — determining factor
- Indonesian: penentu — determining factor
- Irish: cinntitheach — determining factor
- Norwegian: determinant — determining factor
- Portuguese: determinante — determining factor
- Russian: определя́ющий фа́ктор (opredeljájuščij fáktor) — determining factor
- Russian: определи́тель (opredelítelʹ) — determining factor
- Bulgarian: детерминанта (determinanta) — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- Catalan: determinant — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- Chinese Mandarin: 行列式 (hánglièshì) — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- Czech: determinant — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- Danish: determinant — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- Dutch: determinant — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- Estonian: determinant — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- Finnish: determinantti — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- French: déterminant — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- German: Determinante — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- Greek: ορίζουσα (orízousa) — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- Hindi: सारणिक (sārṇik) — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- Hungarian: determináns — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- Icelandic: ákveða — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- Indonesian: determinan — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- Italian: determinante — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- Japanese: 行列式 (gyōretsu-shiki) — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- Korean: 행렬식 (haengnyeolsik) — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- Malay: penentu — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- Norwegian: determinant — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- Polish: wyznacznik — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- Portuguese: determinante — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- Russian: детермина́нт (determinánt) — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- Slovak: determinant — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- Spanish: determinante — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- Swedish: determinant — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- Tagalog: taliyak — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
- Vietnamese: định thức — scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a square matrix
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