indeterminate

How To Use indeterminate In A Sentence

• The Arithmetica is a collection of 130 problems giving numerical solutions of determinate equations (those with a unique solution), and indeterminate equations.
• 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.
• Rather, the smell of the place urges me indeterminately, diffusedly, to truantry. Journeys to Bagdad
• The propagules of these predominantly arctic/alpine grasses consist of indeterminate spikelets, which revert to vegetative growth before dehiscing from the parent plant.
• It is not clear whether Elizabeth is referring here to the deconstructionist theory of the late twentieth century which undermined the assumption that texts have intentional, recuperable meanings — in which case Kafka is a bad example, because his texts were recognized as being radically indeterminate in meaning well before the advent of poststructuralism — or whether she is saying that Kafka was a kind of prophet of deconstruction. Disturbing the Peace
• An indeterminate outcome was defined as resolution of signs and symptoms of infection with a need for continued antimicrobial suppression.
• An adequate account of boredom, then, must explain in one sense that only something indeterminate is lacking.
• Some organisms, including sponges, barnacles, and encrusting coralline algae, can, however, survive overgrowth, without apparent damage, for indeterminate periods of time or may even benefit from being overgrown.
• Despite the figurative grotesquerie, which is more nuisance than threat, it is a painting of nothing — no thing as such but atmosphere — a moody, indeterminate matter expressive of an interior mental state conjured through paint and paint alone. Ensor Unmasked
• Our guide is of indeterminate age, with teeth as exposed and raw as the crags of the mountains around us.