determinant

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1)  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.
 * 2) * 1966 [Allyn & Bacon],, 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 $$A$$.
 * 1) * 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.
 * 1)  A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate.
 * 2)  Something that causes a nuclease to cut at a specified point
 * 1)  A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate.
 * 2)  Something that causes a nuclease to cut at a specified point
 * 1)  Something that causes a nuclease to cut at a specified point

Translations

 * Arabic: مُحَدِّدٌ
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 決定(性)因素
 * Finnish: määräävä tekijä, ratkaiseva tekijä
 * French:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: cinntitheach
 * Norwegian: determinant
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: определя́ющий фа́ктор,


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 * Korean: 행렬식(行列式)
 * Malay: penentu
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 * Tagalog: taliyak
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Adjective

 * 1) Serving to determine or limit; determinative.

Adjective

 * 1) determining

Noun

 * 1)  determiner

Noun

 * 1)  unique scalar function over square matrices

Related terms

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Noun

 * 1)  determinant

Etymology
From, from.

Etymology
From, from.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) determining factor