determiner

It’s the key determiner of living standards: Wages go up as productivity improves.

From New York Times ● Jun. 19, 2024

Ridley said the Official Golf World Rankings are "a legitimate determiner of who the best players in the game are" and because the Masters is an invitational event they can "adjust as necessary".

From BBC ● Apr. 10, 2024

"Nobody should be the sole determiner of their own biases, but they maintain that," Lubet added.

From Reuters ● Nov. 13, 2023

If you think what's the number one determiner of your income level – it's your parents' income level, right?

From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2023

All that the Sophocles’s have in common is that they fill the determiner slot in the tree and help you determine which play, which nose, and so on, the speaker had in mind.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

"Supermarket buyers are some of the most powerful determiners of national diet."

From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2016

Their impact is less significant in many developed countries, but they are important determiners of mortality in developing countries.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013

Other common determiners include articles, as in the cat and this boy; quantifiers, as in some nights and all people; and numbers, as in sixteen tons.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker

Within the nucleus, the chromosomes mysteriously move and divide, ranging themselves in age- old patterns that will serve to distribute the determiners of heredity, the genes, to the daughter cells.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Such Cases Easily Mistaken for True Blends.—If we should tabulate the possible combinations as we did the dihybrid we should see that we would get individuals having varying numbers of red determiners.

From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. Guyer