determinate

Determinate is defined as something with a precise or exact form or limit.

(adjective)

Something that can only grow to a certain limit is an example of something that would be described as growing to a determinate limit.

See determinate in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

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

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

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See determinate in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Precisely limited or defined; definite: a determinate number; a determinate distance.
Conclusively settled; final.
Firm in purpose; resolute.
Botany
a. Terminating in a flower and blooming in a sequence beginning with the uppermost or central flower; cymose: a determinate inflorescence.
b. Not continuing indefinitely at the tip of an axis: determinate growth.

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Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Latin dēterminātus

Origin: , past participle of dētermināre, to determine; see determine

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