Something decisive establishes terms or is decisive: "The Uruguayan striker's goal was decisive."
The first step that is necessary to take is to clarify the etymological origin of the determining term. In that sense, we will have to say that it emanates from Latin, and more precisely from the verb "determinare", which can be translated as "precisely express an idea." This Latin word is made up of two clearly delimited parts: the prefix "de", which is synonymous with "direction of something from top to bottom", and the verb "terminare", which is equivalent to "set a limit".
Determinant is that which determines . The verb determine , for its part, refers to setting the terms of something, pointing out something for some purpose, making a decision , distinguishing or discerning.
For example: "The missed penalty play was decisive for the development of the match" , "Experts consider that the president's support will be decisive in the next elections" , "My parents' words are decisive in my decisions" .
Concept of determinant in linguistics
In linguistics , a determiner is a morpheme that, adjacent to the noun phrase, quantifies or specializes it to form a determining phrase with it. Determinants, therefore, point to an object and delimit its meaning.
Linguistic determiners are divided into actualizers , quantifiers , interrogatives/exclamatives , and predeterminants . The expression "I already read the whole book" includes the predetermining "everything" , which fixes the scope of the phrase to the entire "book" . The sentence "I liked the book" , for its part, presents the actualizing determiner "the" , while "I want a double portion of potatoes" exhibits the quantifier determiner "double" .
As for interrogative or exclamatory determiners, they are those that are included in expressions such as "What a problem!" or "How many players?" .
There are various types of linguistic determinants.
Other classifications
In the same way, we cannot ignore the existence of these other commonly used determinants:
• Demonstratives, which accompany nouns and whose objective is to make clear their distance or proximity to the recipients. Examples are "this", "that" or "that".
• Possessive. These determinants, as their name indicates, are those that not only go along with the name but also indicate whether it belongs to one or more people. Therefore, among those are "our" or "your", among others.
• Numerals, whose main function is to precisely quantify and establish an order of placement. Among these determinants, which can be ordinal or cardinal as well as fractional or multiplicative, are "ten", "fourth", "second"...
Determinants in mathematics
In the field of mathematics , a determinant is an expression obtained from the application of the elements of a square matrix according to certain rules. It can be said that the determinant is an alternating multilinear form.
In the same way, within the mathematical field, we cannot ignore the existence of what is known as the adjunct of a determinant. We can say that this is the minor complementary that it has and it is necessary, in order to calculate it, to use different functions that are based on the use of the symbols + and -.
For a database , a determinant is an attribute on which another attribute functionally depends. This second attribute, therefore, is meaningless without the presence of the first.