adjective
1.Serving to determine or decide something.
‘The increased mobility observed on the collagen gel may also be a determinant factor for collective cell migration because high mobility can lead to inertial motion in the congested state.’
‘But as any linguist would tell you, a word never has a single determinant meaning.’
noun
1.A factor which decisively affects the nature or outcome of something.
‘pure force of will was the main determinant of his success’
‘The categories were selected as indicators, risk factors or relevant environmental determinants affecting fitness, obesity and health.’
2.A gene or other factor which determines the character and development of a cell or cells in an organism, a set of which forms an individual’s idiotype.
‘The primary determinant of sexual identity in Drosophila, the X chromosome karyotype, was discovered nearly a century ago.’
‘Previous studies examined the genetic determinants for arbovirus development within the invertebrate vector, but not transmission to a vertebrate host.’
3.A quantity obtained by the addition of products of the elements of a square matrix according to a given rule.
‘If one starts by defining the determinant for a triangular matrix and specifying the effect of the basic row operations on the determinant, one can obtain all of these results within a single section.’
‘It is not surprising that the beginnings of matrices and determinants should arise through the study of systems of linear equations.’
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