English-Italian translations for determinant

• determinante
  La povertà è il fattore individuale più determinante per la salute. Poverty is the greatest single determinant of health.
  L'alimentazione influisce in modo determinante sulla salute durante tutta la vita. Nutrition is a key determinant of health throughout life.
  L' ineguaglianza tra i sessi è un fattore significativo determinante della povertà. Gender inequality is a significant determinant of poverty.

Definition of determinant

• A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something
• 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
• A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate
• Serving to determine or limit; determinative

Related words

• indeterminant
• determinantal
• determinans
• allodeterminant
• determinant expansion
• determinant of a linear transformation
• determinant of a matrix
• determinant of a square matrix
• determinantal rank