determining
Origin of determinant
Classical Latin determinans, present participle of determinare- a thing or factor that determines
- Math. the sum of the products formed from a square matrix in accordance with certain laws
noun
- When your boss' opinion is ultimately the only opinion that matters in making a decision in your office, this is an example of a determinant.
- If you have a specific gene that is dominant and that always determines what a person's eye color will be, this is an example of a determinant.
The definition of a determinant is something that determines an outcome or result of something.
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determinant
adjective
Determinative.
noun
- An influencing or determining element or factor: “Education is the second most important determinant of recreational participation” ( John P. Robinson )
- Mathematics The value computed from a square matrix of numbers by a rule of combining products of the matrix entries and that characterizes the solvablitity of simultaneous linear equations. Its absolute value can be interpreted as an area or volume.
- Immunology An epitope.
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Noun
(plural determinants)
- A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something
- (linear algebra) The unique scalar function over square matrices which is distributive over matrix multiplication, multilinear in the rows and columns, and takes the value of 1 for the unit matrix. Abbreviation: det
- (biology) A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate.
Adjective
(comparative more determinant, superlative most determinant)
- Serving to determine or limit; determinative.
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determinant - Medical Definition
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Immunology An epitope.
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Sentence Examples
- Consideration of the definition of the determinant shows that the value is unaltered when the suffixes in each element are transposed.
- If the determinant is transformed so as to read by columns as it formerly did by rows its value is unchanged.
- If any two rows or any two columns of a determinant be identical the value of the determinant is zero.
- Resultant Expressible as a Determinant.-From the theory of linear equations it can be gathered that the condition that p linear equations in p variables (homogeneous and independent) may be simultaneously satisfied is expressible as a determinant, viz.
- No member of a determinant can involve more than one element from the first row.
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