determinant

1. Determinative.

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1. An influencing or determining element or factor: "Education is the second most important determinant of recreational participation” ( John P. Robinson).

2. Immunology An epitope.

3. Mathematics The value that is computed from a square matrix of numbers by a rule of combining products of the matrix entries and that characterizes the solvablitity of simultaneous linear equations. Its absolute value can be interpreted as an area or volume.

4. An element that identifies or the nature of something or that fixes or conditions an outcome.

5. A square array of numbers bordered on the left and right by a vertical line and having a value equal to the algebraic sum of all possible products where the number of factors in each product is the same as the number of rows or columns, each factor in a given product is taken from a different row and column, and the sign of a product is positive or negative depending upon whether the number of permutations necessary to place the indices representing each factor's position in its row or column in the order of the natural numbers is odd or even.

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Top Words by points	Points	Word Game
determinant	14	Scrabble

2 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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5 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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7 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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8 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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9 Letters	Scrabble® Points
detriment	12
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netminder	12
terminate	11

10 Letters	Scrabble® Points
detainment	13
terminated	13

11 Letters	Scrabble® Points
determinant	14
detrainment	14