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Determinant vs Determinans - What's the difference?

determinant | determinans |

As nouns the difference between determinant and determinans

is that determinant is (label) determiner while determinans is (linguistics) a modifier; a word that modifies another word.

As a verb determinant

is .

As an adjective determinant

is determinant.

determinant

English

Noun

(wikipedia determinant) (en noun)
  • A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something
  • (linear algebra) The unique scalar function over square matrices which is distributive over matrix multiplication, multilinear in the rows and columns, and takes the value of 1 for the unit matrix. Abbreviation: det
  • (biology) A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate.

    • See also

    * permanent * singular * Mathworld article on determinants

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Serving to determine or limit; determinative.

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    determinans

    English

    (wikipedia determinans)

    Noun

  • (linguistics) A modifier; a word that modifies another word.
    • In the noun phrase “noun phrase”, “noun” is the determinans and “phrase” is the determinatum.

    Related terms

    * determinatum ----