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A square matrix used to solve simultaneous equations
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determinant
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Determinant \De*ter"mi*nant\, a. [L. determinans, p. pr. of determinare: cf. F. d['e]terminant.] Serving to determine or limit; determinative.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Serving to determine or limit; determinative. n. 1 A determine factor; an element that determines the nature of something 2 (context linear algebra English) The unique scalar function over square matrix which is distributive over matrix multiplication, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600 (adj.); 1680s (n.), from Latin determinantem (nominative determinans ), present participle of determinare (see determine ).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In linear algebra , the determinant is a useful value that can be computed from the elements of a square matrix . The determinant of a matrix A is denoted det( A ), det A , or | A |. In the case of a 2 × 2 matrix, the specific formula for the determinant ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. having the power or quality of deciding; "the crucial experiment"; "cast the deciding vote"; "the determinative (or determinant) battle" [syn: crucial , deciding(a) , determinative , determining(a) ] n. a determining or causal element or factor; "education ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE behavioural ▪ Purchase and consumption behaviour will be as much influenced by social groups as by any other form, of behavioural determinant . ▪ It is essential for the marketer to understand the behavioural determinants ...
Usage examples of determinant.
But where the differentiation of the biosphere and the noosphere was not complete, the biospheric identities sucked these movements back out of the noosphere and into the bodily or biological determinants.
Mood-regulation expectancies as determinants of dysphoria in college students.
And, as I earlier mentioned, in the horticultural societies where women were a large portion of the productive work force, a type of egalitarian arrangement was indeed at work, but this was secured not by stable legal and noospheric determinants, but simply by biospheric contingencies.
Yet another school fastens on the universal Circuit as embracing all things and producing all by its motion and by the positions and mutual aspect of the planets and fixed stars in whose power of foretelling they find warrant for the belief that this Circuit is the universal determinant.
The state of the sensorium is a far more basic determinant of behavior than cultural patterns of reward and punishment because we receive these very reinforcements themselves through the media of the senses.
Stalin, whose historical determinants found themselves grounded in nature, sublimated under the name of Genius, that is, something irrational and inexpressible: here, depoliticization is evident, it fully reveals the presence of a myth.
And a smaller, more neotenous brain enhanced his synaptic firing speed -- a determinant of intelligence.
This is the driving force behind the regime and all of its policies and so is the principal determinant of nearly every other aspect of Iraqi policy and society.
But where the differentiation of the biosphere and the noosphere was not complete, the biospheric identities sucked these movements back out of the noosphere and into the bodily or biological determinants.
The biosphere and noosphere had not been differentiated in these societies, and thus the social determinants always reverted to biospheric selection in times of stress, defense, or turmoil.
But if there is a Rubicon anywhere near 750 cubic centimeters, while differences of the order of 100 or 200 cubic centimeters do not-at any rate to us-seem to be compelling determinants of intelligence, might not the apes be intelligent in some recognizably human sense?
Tallying Up the Costs These three variables are likely to be the principal determinants of both the length of the campaign and the number of casualties the United States would take.
You have yours for physics and mathematics, determinants and momentum and conserved vector currents.
Several terms in the Lower-Left are carried over from Up from Eden and Eye to eye: pleromatic (physical/material), uroboric (reptilian/brain stem), and typhonic (paleomammalian/limbic), although these are all used in a very general sense (both here and in Eden), to indicate worldviews where these elements, although by no means the sole determinant, loom large in its primary concerns, often defining its most general atmosphere (and sometimes its most scarce resource).
It had Fourier series, Bessel functions, determinants, elliptic functions -- all kinds of wonderful stuff that I didn't know anything about.