Definition of "determinants" [determinants]

• Plural form of determinant. (noun)

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• "We then considered the nature of scientific laws, and found that, instead of stating that one event A is always followed by another event B, they stated functional relations between certain events at certain times, which we called determinants, and other events at earlier or later times or at the same time."
• "And they are the long-term determinants of population growth and therefore work force growth."
• "And prognosticators tend to look toward a mixture of partisan elected officials and foul winds of fate and chance as the main determinants of macroeconomic performance."