Preposition: in

• duration: When interrupts or multitasking have been added they may be slower and indeterminate in duration.

• way: We feel the future is ' open ' or indeterminate in a way the past is not.

Modifies a noun

• implicatures: Worse yet, indeterminate implicatures are not an isolated, rare phenomenon.

• ind: The returned polynomials are expressed in the indeterminate number ind.

• sentence: We need a new, more accurate, term for indeterminate sentences.

• duration: The latter proceeds from the assumption of the relative stability and the indeterminate duration of the existing rule.

• fragment: The carbonized assemblage from 046 was scant, including only two tiny heather family twig fragments and several indeterminate stem fragments.

• equation: The Book of rare things in the art of calculation is concerned with solutions to indeterminate equations.

Modifying Another Word

• statically: Structural analysis of statically indeterminate plane trusses; virtual work; lack-of-fit problems.

• somewhat: Some three years ago when his life seemed somewhat indeterminate he decided to read law at North East London Polytechnic.

• rather: In addition, there are four rather indeterminate specimens perhaps more likely to be male than female.

• essentially: That is, is an option intellectually open when the evidence is indeterminate, or when it is essentially indeterminate?

• too: In short the task was too indeterminate and too easy.

• semantically: Only if the form plane encodes semantically indeterminate elements like prototypical complements, does Zifonun's approach go beyond a semantic concept of valency.

Used with adjective complement

• become: While my eyesight becomes increasingly more indeterminate, my vision is filled with awe and wonder.