déterminant — meaning in English
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English meaning
- attribute noun A quality or characteristic that belongs to a person or thing.
- determinant noun A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something.
- determiner noun Someone or something that determines, or helps to determine, something else.
- pivotal adj Extremely important; central to how something turns out.
Senses
déterminant is used for these senses in English:
- attribute (grammar) A word that qualifies a noun.
- determiner A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.
- pivotal Being of crucial importance; central, key.
attribute — full definition
- noun A quality or characteristic that belongs to a person or thing.
- noun A property or setting associated with a data object, in computing.
- verb To say that something is caused by or belongs to a particular source.
determinant — full definition
- 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.
- noun A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate.
- noun Something that causes a nuclease to cut at a specified point