- a factor that decides whether or how something happens
- Interest rates are a major determinant of currency trends.
Extra Examples- We need to identify the social and economic determinants of ill health.
- It was only a secondary factor, not the sole determinant.
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin determinant- ‘determining’, from the verb determinare ‘limit, fix’, from de- ‘completely’ + terminare ‘terminate’.
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