decider vs determinant

decider

noun
  • An event or action which decides the outcome of a contested matter. 

  • A person, divinity, or authoritative text which decides. 

  • A Turing machine that halts regardless of its input. 

determinant

noun
  • A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something. 

  • A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate. 

  • 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. 

  • Something that causes a nuclease to cut at a specified point 

adj
  • Serving to determine or limit; determinative. 

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