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determinante — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • 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.
  • pervasive adjective Present or spreading throughout something; affecting every part of it.

Senses

determinante is used for these senses in English:

  • determinant (linear algebra) 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.
  • determiner A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.
  • pervasive Manifested throughout; pervading, permeating, penetrating or affecting everything.

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

determiner — full definition

  1. noun Someone or something that determines, or helps to determine, something else.
  2. noun A factor that defines something, or one among several that define it.
  3. noun Someone or something (especially a sentient agent) that determines; a decider of a disposition.
  4. noun A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.

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