determinant

Meanings

Plural: determinants

Noun

• a determining or causal element or factor
  • "education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life"
• the site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself
• a square matrix used to solve simultaneous equations
• A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something.
• 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.
• A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate.
• Something that causes a nuclease to cut at a specified point

Adjective Satellite

• having the power or quality of deciding
  • "the determinative (or determinant) battle"

Adj

• Serving to determine or limit; determinative.

Synonyms

antigenic determinant, causal factor, deciding, determinative, determiner, determining, determining factor, epitope

Related Words

permanent, singular

Anagrams of determinant