adj
Meaning 1
Serving to discriminate.
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discriminant
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noun
Meaning 2
An expression that gives information about the roots of a polynomial; for example, the expression D = b2 - 4ac determines whether the roots of the quadratic equation ax2 + bx + c = 0 are real and distinct (D > 0), real and equal (D = 0) or complex (D < 0).
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Topics: algebra, mathematics, sciences
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noun
Meaning 3
The invariant (on the vector space of forms of degree d in n variables) that vanishes exactly when the corresponding hypersurface in Pn−1 is singular.
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Topics: geometry, mathematics, sciences
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Etymology
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Across languages
Translations
18 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Cantonese: 判別式 — in algebra
- Chinese Cantonese: 判别式 — in algebra
- Chinese Mandarin: 判別式 /判别式 (pànbiéshì) — in algebra
- Czech: diskriminant — in algebra
- Danish: diskriminant — in algebra
- Finnish: diskriminantti — in algebra
- French: discriminant — in algebra
- Greek: διακρίνουσα (diakrínousa) — in algebra
- Hungarian: diszkrimináns — in algebra
- Japanese: 判別式 (hanbetsushiki) — in algebra
- Persian: مبین (mobayyen) — in algebra
- Polish: wyróżnik — in algebra
- Romanian: discriminant — in algebra
- Russian: дискримина́нт (diskriminánt) — in algebra
- Spanish: discriminante — in algebra
- Swedish: diskriminant — in algebra
- Tagalog: talangi — in algebra
- Thai: ดิสคริมิแนนต์ — in algebra
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