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Determinant

noun

A determining or causal element or factor. Synonyms: causal factor, determinative, determiner, determining factor.

The site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself. Synonyms: antigenic determinant, epitope.

A square matrix used to solve simultaneous equations.

adjective

Having the power or quality of deciding. Synonyms: deciding, determinative, determining. "Cast the deciding vote" , "The determinative (or determinant) battle"

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"Determinant" Quotes from Famous Books

... alike between understanding and reason and between knowing and feeling: in Judgment, as the higher faculty of feeling. Judgment, in the general sense, is the faculty of thinking a particular as contained in a universal, and exercises a twofold function: as "determinant" judgment it subsumes the particular under a given universal (a law), as "reflective" it seeks the universal for a given particular. Since the former coincides with the understanding, we are here concerned only with the reflective judgment, judgment in the narrower ...

— History Of Modern Philosophy - From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time • Richard Falckenberg

... their most essential characteristics. But one gains nothing by separating the most extreme inversion types from the others on the basis of such constitutional peculiarities. What is found in the latter as seemingly an adequate determinant can also be demonstrated only in lesser force in the constitution of transitional types and in manifestly normal persons. The differences in the results may be of a qualitative nature, but analysis shows that the differences in the determinants ...

— Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex • Sigmund Freud

... all the determinants of value, for labour is the chief element in cost of production, and cost of production is one of the chief elements in determining the level at which it is useful to buy or sell. But labour is not the only determinant of value; there is, e.g., the price of the raw materials, a price that is not wholly determined by the labour of producing ...

— An Essay on Mediaeval Economic Teaching • George O'Brien

... about three miles in width, lying between Lake Erie and a high escarpment which bounds the belt on the south throughout its entire length of a hundred or more miles. Here climate and soil seem to be exceptionally favorable for grape-growing. Climate is the chief determinant of the boundaries of this belt, since there are several types of soil upon which grapes do equally well in the region, and when the climate changes at the two extremities of the belt where the escarpment becomes low, or when the distance between the lake and the escarpment ...

— Manual of American Grape-Growing • U. P. Hedrick