Determinant vs Variable - What's the difference?

In biology terms the difference between determinant and variable

is that determinant is a substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate while variable is tending to deviate from a normal or recognized type.

As nouns the difference between determinant and variable

is that determinant is a determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something while variable is something that is variable.

As adjectives the difference between determinant and variable

is that determinant is serving to determine or limit; determinative while variable is able to vary.

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.

Adjective

(en adjective)

Serving to determine or limit; determinative.

Anagrams

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variable

English

(wikipedia variable)

Adjective

(en adjective)

Able to vary.

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Likely to vary.

* Shakespeare

Lest that thy love prove likewise variable .

Marked by diversity or difference.

(mathematics) Having no fixed quantitative value.

(biology) Tending to deviate from a normal or recognized type.

Synonyms

* (able to vary) alterable, flexible, changeable, mutable * (likely to vary) fickle, fluctuating, inconstant, shifting, unstable, unsteady * (marked by diversity or difference) varying * aberrant

Antonyms

* (able to vary) constant, invariable, immutable, unalterable, unchangeable * (likely to vary) constant, invariable, immutable, unchangeable * (marked by diversity or difference) unchanging * constant, invariable

Derived terms

* variability * variableness

Noun

(en noun)

Something that is .

Something whose value may be dictated or discovered.

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(mathematics) A quantity that may assume any one of a set of values.

(mathematics) A symbol representing a variable.

(programming) A named memory location in which a program can store intermediate results and from which it can read them.

(astronomy) A variable star.

(nautical) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force.

(nautical, in the plural) Those parts of the sea where a steady wind is not expected, especially the parts between the trade-wind belts.

Synonyms

* (something that is variable) changeable * (something whose value may be dictated or discovered) parameter * variable quantity

Antonyms

* (something that is variable) constant, invariable

Hyponyms

* See also

Derived terms

* bound variable * categorical variable * continuous variable * dependent variable * discrete variable * flow variable * free variable * global variable * independent variable * instance variable * interval variable * local variable * member variable * metasyntactic variable * nominal variable * ordinal variable * ratio variable * stock variable * variable star * variably * vary

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