determinant
/dɪˈtəːmɪnənt
/noun
1A 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.
- Though a number of factors may influence the course of disease progression, a balance between the host factors and the virus factors are major determinants of the outcome of HIV infection.
- So it could be argued that bottom line financial considerations were the main determinant of the four times a day musters and headcounts held in Villawood detention centre.
1.1 Biology 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.Previous studies examined the genetic determinants for arbovirus development within the invertebrate vector, but not transmission to a vertebrate host....
- However, the genetic determinants appear to be chromosomal.
- It is well established that genetic determinants play a role in the susceptibility to the development of asthma.
2 Mathematics A quantity obtained by the addition of products of the elements of a square matrix according to a given rule.If you know the concept of the determinant of a square matrix, you may calculate the determinants of the 3x3 and 4x4 Liki-matrices....
- What Yang's method essentially reduces to is finding the determinant of the matrix of coefficients of the system of equations.
- It is not surprising that the beginnings of matrices and determinants should arise through the study of systems of linear equations.
adjective
Serving to determine or decide something.This was the ‘key determinant factor’ in deciding not to pursue charges....
- The invention of tools such as the forceps and the introduction of the medical man in the birthing place have been determinant steps in the history of childbirth.
- This finding is substantiated by the paucity of significant determinant variables in these models.
Origin
Early 17th century: from Latin determinant- 'determining', from the verb determinare (see determine).
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