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determinate Definition

de·ter·mi·nate (dē tʉr′mi nit, di-)

adjective

  1. having exact limits; definite; distinct; fixed
  2. settled or decided; conclusive
  3. Bot. having a flower at the end of the primary axis and of each secondary axis; cymose

Etymology: ME < L determinatus, pp. of determinare: see determine

determinate Related Forms
de·ter′·mi·nately adverb de·ter′·mi·nate·ness noun
determinate Usage Examples

Modifies a noun

  • counsel: This is a decision for a pre-decided course of action, the determinate counsel of God means God determined the course of action.
  • sentence: This is equivalent to a determinate sentence of 20 years.
  • prisoner: In the 19 months ending on 31 October 2004, the Board considered representations against the recall of determinate sentence prisoners in 1945 cases.
  • meaning: Furthermore, the ' is ' asserts no intensional relation between the meanings of SOCRATES and MAN, since SOCRATES has no determinate meaning.
  • answer: This inability to provide determinate answers to questions of probability is what makes this theory inadequate for resolving the question of miracles.
  • character: The form-copy is not responsible for the concrete, determinate character of her beauty.

Modifying Another Word

  • statically: These beams are not statically determinate using the static equilibrium laws.
  • absolutely: Nor does the process stop with some basic items that really are absolutely determinate.
  • not: Nonetheless, it is not a proof of progress because teleological judgments are reflective judgments not determinate ones.
  • sufficiently: However, we do not consider that the Board definition is sufficiently determinate.
  • completely: Orthodox belief in a good and almighty God pictures the world as a Cosmos, completely determinate and with all events predestined.
  • referentially: Consequently, we should take it for granted that both terms involved are referentially determinate.

Used with adjective complement

  • become: The theory now becomes determinate again - but the problem is that economic reality itself can easily escape from your theory!
  • give: For instance, taking any given determinate, there is only one determinable to which it can belong.