determinant

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
/dɪˈtɜːmɪnənt/    /dɪˈtɜːmɪnənt/|/dɪˈtɝmɪnənt/|/dɪˈtɝmənənt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something.
    — 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.
  2. 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.
    — 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.
  3. A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate.
  4. Something that causes a nuclease to cut at a specified point
形容词 adj.
  1. Serving to determine or limit; determinative.

词形变化

determinants plural more determinant comparative most determinant superlative

词源

词源 1
Borrowed from French déterminant, equivalent to determine + -ant.
词源 2
Borrowed from French déterminant, equivalent to determine + -ant.
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