Discriminant

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Discriminant \Dis*crim"i*nant\, n. [L. discriminans, p. pr. of
     discriminare.] (Math.)
     The eliminant of the n partial differentials of any
     homogenous function of n variables. See {Eliminant}.
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