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
Serving to determine or limit; determinative.
Something (some input factor, a nonsentient agent) that determines, or helps someone to determine, something else.
A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.
A dependent function in a noun phrase marking the NP as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.
Someone (a sentient agent) who determines; a decider of a disposition.