determinant
/dɪˈtɜːmɪnənt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.90 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something.
noun
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.
adj
Serving to determine or limit; determinative.
Example Sentences
- "1999, Noah P. Barsky, Stuart Bruchey (editor), Organizational Determinants of Budgetary Influence and Involvement, Taylor & Francis (Garland Publishing), page 4, Shields and Young (1993) argue that the budget participation literature "has not produced a coherent nor unified definition" of both the determinants and consequences of budget participation."
- "The field of the social determinants of health is perhaps the most complex and challenging of all."
- "The aim of this book has been to assess the determinants of capital punishment without taking a stand for or against the death penalty."
- "1966 [Allyn & Bacon], Howard Whitley Eves, Elementary Matrix Theory, 1980, Dover, Unabridged corrected republication, page 165, The determinant of a square matrix A_(n) is a function (actually a polynomial function) of the elements a_ij of A."
- "1990, Assem S. Deif, Advanced Matrix Theory for Scientists and Engineers, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers (Abacus Press), 2nd Edition, page 18, Show that the determinant of a Hermitian matrix is real and that of a skew-Hermitian matrix is imaginary."
- "Using this definition, we derive the basic properties of a determinant that are useful in its evaluation. In particular, it is shown how the calculation of a determinant can be reduced to the calculation of determinants of lower order."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /dɪˈtɜːmɪnənt/
- British English: /dɪˈtɜːmɪnənt/
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
allodeterminant
antideterminant
bideterminant
determinantal
hyperdeterminant
immunodeterminant
macrodeterminant
microdeterminant
multideterminant
predeterminant
quasideterminant
serodeterminant