determinant
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Synonyms: determenant, indeterminant, determinate, terminant, determinants, determining, determinist, determinacy, determanent, determinato
Antonyms: determenant, indeterminant, determinate, terminant, determinants, determining, determinist, determinacy, determanent, determinato
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Noun
- A [[determine|determining]] [[factor]]; an [[element]] that [[determine]]s the [[nature]] of something.
- {{lb|en|linear algebra}} A [[scalar]] that encodes certain characteristics of a given [[transformation matrix]]; the unique scalar function over square [[matrix|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]].
- {{lb|en|biology}} A substance that causes a [[cell]] to adopt a particular fate.
- {{lb|en|genetics}} Something that causes a [[nuclease]] to [[cut]] at a specified point
Adjective
- Serving to determine or limit; [[determinative]].
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