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The definition of a determiner is a person that gives a final decision, or a word that modifies a noun or adjective.

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An example of a determiner is a Supreme Court Judge.
An example of a determiner are words such as any, my or both.

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See determiner in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

anything that determines
Gram. a word, such as a, the, this, each, some, either, or my, that determines the use of a noun without essentially modifying it and is placed before a descriptive adjective

See determiner in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

One that determines.
Grammar A word belonging to a group of noun modifiers, which includes articles, demonstratives, possessive adjectives, and words such as any, both, or whose, and, in English, occupying the first position in a noun phrase or following another determiner.

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