main determinant
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmainanddeterminant
These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withdeterminant.
main
adjective[before noun]
uk/meɪn/us/meɪn/
larger, more important, or having more influence than others of the ...
See more atmain
determinant
noun[C]
uk/dɪˈtɜː.mɪ.nənt/us/dɪˈtɝː.mɪ.nənt/
formal
something that controls or affects what happens in a ...
See more atdeterminant
(Definition ofmainanddeterminantfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmain determinant
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
At the same time, however, themaindeterminantof which less advantaged people are covered and which not is chance.
From theCambridge English Corpus
While demography is often cited as the stimulus for change, it has not been themaindeterminantof existing policies.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The difference in transaction costs between potential organizational forms will be themaindeterminantof their selection.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Contrary to the authors' earlier findings, the nature of the pre-divorce grandparent-grandchild relationship was not always itsmaindeterminantpost-divorce.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These heuristics critically influence the efficiency of the search, and consequently the size of an explanation, which is themaindeterminantof its quality.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Since there is a relative lack of fetal ventricular compliance, themaindeterminantof cardiac function seems to be the right atrium.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The soil-mining model has nutrient stocks as themaindeterminantof land productivity.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This modality is themaindeterminantof brain size across species.
From theCambridge English Corpus
In such cases, the ecological distance between hosts becomes themaindeterminantof the likelihood of host switching, with phylogenetic distance playing a secondary role.
From theCambridge English Corpus
It seems that winter climate and, in particular, the snow conditions, is themaindeterminantof the population change.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Vascular resistance is themaindeterminantof by a small decrease that may be due to a postural ventricular 'afterload'; systemic arterial resistance effect.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The ability of species to use the matrix has been pointed out as themaindeterminantof vulnerability in fragmented landscapes.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These ingredients imply that the ' topology ' of a protein structure is amaindeterminantof the mechanism of folding to that structure.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The stretched diameter of the defect measured with a balloon is themaindeterminantof the choice of the type and size of the device.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Our regression analysis shows that variation in ideological distance between party groups is amaindeterminantof coalition formation.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Taken together, these results lend direct support to the idea that the chain entropy is themaindeterminant in controlling the global features of the folding-energy landscape.
From theCambridge English Corpus
If pregnancy rather than birth is themaindeterminant, it would be sensible to start from when the pregnancy was highly likely to go to term.
From theCambridge English Corpus
It has been postulated that the balance between the actions of progesterone and oestrogen is themaindeterminantof gene expression controlling uterine quiescence and subsequent myometrial activation.
From theCambridge English Corpus
The paper uses both primary and secondary data to test the hypotheses that, controlling for other determinants, property right regimes constitute themaindeterminantof the strategies adopted by herders.
From theCambridge English Corpus
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
Want to learn more?
Go to the definition ofmain
Go to the definition ofdeterminant
See other collocations withdeterminant