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noun

Determinant n.

That which serves to determine; that which causes determination.

(Math.) The sum of a series of products of several numbers, these products being formed according to certain specified laws

(Logic) A mark or attribute, attached to the subject or predicate, narrowing the extent of both, but rendering them more definite and precise.

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Etymology of 'Determinant'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Determinant" Quotes from Famous Books

... remember that the production of good character is not the end of either individual or state action: that is the aim of the one and the other because good character is the indispensable condition and chief determinant of happiness, itself the goal of all human doing. The end of all action, individual or collective, is the greatest happiness of the greatest number. There is, Aristotle insists, no difference of kind between the good of one and the good of many or all. The sole difference ...

— Ethics • Aristotle

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