English Explanatory Dictionary

determinant

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something.
  2. 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.
  3. A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate.
  4. Something that causes a nuclease to cut at a specified point
adj
  1. Serving to determine or limit; determinative.

Pronunciation

/dɪˈtɜːmɪnənt/ /dɪˈtɝmɪnənt/ /dɪˈtɝmənənt/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Sapaa-determinant.wav

Word forms

determinant determinants more determinant most determinant

Etymology

Borrowed from French déterminant, equivalent to determine + -ant.

Related words

permanent singular

Derived words

allodeterminant antideterminant bideterminant cytoplasmic determinant determinantal hyperdeterminant immunodeterminant macrodeterminant microdeterminant multideterminant predeterminant quasideterminant serodeterminant skew-symmetric determinant Slater determinant stereodeterminant subdeterminant superdeterminant self-determinant
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