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Detriment vs Determinant - What's the difference?

detriment | determinant |

As nouns the difference between detriment and determinant

is that detriment is detriment while determinant is (label) determiner.

As a verb determinant is

.

As an adjective determinant is

determinant.

detriment

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Harm, hurt, damage.
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    • , year=1872 , author=Fyodor Dostoyevsky , title=The Possessed , chapter=7 citation , passage=“But marriage in secret, Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch — a fatal secret. I receive money from you, and I'm suddenly asked the question, 'What's that money for?' My hands are tied; I cannot answer to the detriment of my sister, to the detriment of the family honour.”}}
  • (UK, obsolete) A charge made to students and barristers for incidental repairs of the rooms they occupy.

    • Usage notes

    * Often used in the form "to someone's detriment".

    Synonyms

    * harm * hurt * illfare * damage

    Antonyms

    * benefit

    Related terms

    * detrimental

    External links

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    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

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