Determination vs Determinant - What's the difference?
determination | determinant |
The act of determining, or the state of being determined.
Bringing to an end; termination; limit.
Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion.
The quality of mind which reaches definite conclusions; decision of character; resoluteness.
(countable) The state of decision; a judicial decision, or ending of controversy.
(countable) That which is determined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution.
A flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part; as, a determination of blood to the head.
(countable) The act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity, etc.; as, the determination of the ohm or of the wave length of light; the determination of the salt in sea water, or the oxygen in the air.
The act of defining a concept or notion by giving its essential constituents.
The addition of a differentia to a concept or notion, thus limiting its extent; -- the opposite of generalization.
The act of determining the relations of an object, as regards genus and species; the referring of minerals, plants, or animals, to the species to which they belong; classification; as, I am indebted to a friend for the determination of most of these shells.
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.
As nouns the difference between determination and determinant
is that determination is determination while determinant is (label) determiner.As a verb determinant is
.As an adjective determinant is
determinant.determination
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(wikipedia determination)Noun
Derived terms
* cellular determinationdeterminant
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Noun
(wikipedia determinant) (en noun)See also
* permanent * singular *Mathworld article on determinants