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Determinant vs Factors - What's the difference?

determinant | factors |

As nouns the difference between determinant and factors

is that determinant is a determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something while factors is plural of lang=en.

As an adjective determinant

is serving to determine or limit; determinative.

As a verb factors is

third-person singular of factor.

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

    * ----

    factors

    English

    Noun

    (head)
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (factor)