Determinant

Quick meaning: Determinant is a noun meaning A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something.

Meaning

A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something.

More Meanings

1. (biology) A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate.
2. (genetics) Something that causes a nuclease to cut at a specified point
3. Serving to determine or limit; determinative.
4. (linear algebra) 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.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

The following proposition shows a connection between negafibonacci numbers and the determinants of a family of tridiagonal matrices. […] Assuming that the determinant det(Gₖ) = f₋₍ₖ₊₁₎ for all k ≤ n, we aim to show that det(Gₙ₊₂) = f₋₍ₙ₊₃₎.

Word Forms

• determinants

Synonyms for determinant

Depending on context, synonyms include crucial, decisive, determinative, determining, deciding, determiner.

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