Determinant

English

Etymology

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Noun

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.

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2. Template:Lb 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.
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     The determinant of a square matrix $A_{(n)}$ is a function (actually a polynomial function) of the elements $a_{ij}$ of $A$.

   • 1990, Assem S. Deif, Advanced Matrix Theory for Scientists and Engineers, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers (Abacus Press), 2nd Edition, page 18,

     Show that the determinant of a Hermitian matrix is real and that of a skew-Hermitian matrix is imaginary.

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3. Template:Lb A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate.
4. Template:Lb Something that causes a nuclease to cut at a specified point

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Adjective

1. Serving to determine or limit; determinative.

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Catalan

Adjective

1. determining

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1. determining factor
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