a determining or causal element or factor; "education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life" krzyżówka

the topology of a network whose components are connected to a hub a fashion reminiscent of the past a fact about the whole (as opposed to particular); "he discussed the general but neglected the particular" a quantity obtained by the addition of a group of numbers a single undivided whole; "an idea is not a unit that can be moved from one brain to another" something intended as a guide for making something else; "a blueprint for a house"; "a pattern for a skirt" the fourth pillar of Islam is almsgiving as an act of worship; "the zakat is earmarked for the poor and disabled" the visual percept of a region; "the most desirable feature of the park are the beautiful views" a postulated biochemical change (presumably in neural tissue) that represents a memory something illusory and unattainable something that slows or delays progress; "taxation is a drag on the economy"; "too many laws are a drag on the use of new land" your consciousness of your own identity an established custom; "it was their habit to dine at 7 every evening" the creation of something in the mind (religion) the world of the dead; "No one goes to Hades with all his immense wealth"-Theognis (psychoanalysis) the conscious mind the 1st cervical vertebra a broad flat muscle on either side of the back a short vein that carries blood into the liver muscular diaphragm that controls the size of the pupil which in turn controls the amount of light that enters the eye; it forms the colored portion of the eye