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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

  1. noun A quality or characteristic that belongs to a person or thing.
  2. noun A property or setting associated with a data object, in computing.
  3. verb To say that something is caused by or belongs to a particular source.

determinant — full definition

  1. noun A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something.
  2. 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.
  3. noun A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate.
  4. noun Something that causes a nuclease to cut at a specified point

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