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UK
/dɪtˈɜːmɪnˌeɪt/
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[ US /dɪˈtɝməˌneɪt/ ]
[ US /dɪˈtɝməˌneɪt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement
a determinate answer to the problem
a definitive verdict -
not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex
determinate growth -
precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause
a determinate number
a determinate distance
determinate variations in animals
How To Use determinate In A Sentence
- The guilty plea goes only to the length of the determinate sentence. Times, Sunday Times
- The Arithmetica is a collection of 130 problems giving numerical solutions of determinate equations (those with a unique solution), and indeterminate equations.
- If the modelled system is hyperstatic, Fachwerk3D will nevertheless calculate the forces of the members that are determinate. Softpedia - Windows - All
- How far this is true cannot at this date be determinated. Party Politics in North Carolina, 1835-1860
- The indeterminate sentence means it will be up to the parole board to decide when it is safe for the man to be released on licence.
- This determinateness of arrangement is the structure of a state of affairs.
- Rather, the smell of the place urges me indeterminately, diffusedly, to truantry. Journeys to Bagdad
- Dummett concludes that one route to such a local revisionism is a hard-headed finitism in which one denies that there is a determinate fact concerning the outcome of a procedure that has not been carried out.
- The propagules of these predominantly arctic/alpine grasses consist of indeterminate spikelets, which revert to vegetative growth before dehiscing from the parent plant.
- We discuss possible explanations for reduced female recombination in marsupials as a consequence of the metatherian characteristic of determinate paternal X chromosome inactivation.