determinants

/D IH0 T ER1 M AH0 N AH0 N T S/

noun

1
A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something.
2
A scalar that encodes certain characteristics of a given transformation matrix; the unique scalar function over square matrices which is distributive over matrix multiplication, multilinear in the rows and columns, and takes the value 1 for the unit matrix; abbreviated as: det.
3
A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate.

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