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Determinant
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- 1 Serving to determine or limit; determinative.
- 1 having the power or quality of deciding wordnet
- 1 A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something.
"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."
- 2 a determining or causal element or factor wordnet
- 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.
"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."
- 4 a square matrix used to solve simultaneous equations wordnet
- 5 A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate.
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- 6 the site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself wordnet
- 7 Something that causes a nuclease to cut at a specified point
Etymology
Borrowed from French déterminant, equivalent to determine + -ant.
Borrowed from French déterminant, equivalent to determine + -ant.
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