<B>determinable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>that can be settled or decided. <DD><B> 2. </B>that can be found out exactly. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Especially Law.) liable to be terminated. </DL>
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<B>determinacy, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the state or quality of being determinate. </DL>
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<B>determinant, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> determining; deciding. <BR> <I>Ex. The higher pay offered was the determinant factor in his changing jobs.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a thing that determines; determining factor or agent. <BR> <I>Ex. Money and its rate of use are not the sole determinants of price (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Mathematics.) <DD><B> a. </B>a certain number of quantities arranged in a square block whose value is the sum of all the products that can be formed according to certain rules. <DD><B> b. </B>the square block itself. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Biology.) <B>=determiner.</B> </DL>
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<B>determinantal, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with or expressed in mathematical determinants. </DL>
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<B>determinate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>with exact limits; fixed; definite. <BR> <I>Ex. a determinate number of feet (John Dryden).</I> (SYN) specific. <DD><B> 2. </B>settled; positive. <BR> <I>Ex. a determinate rule or order.</I> (SYN) decided. <DD><B> 3. </B>determined; resolute. <DD><B> 4. </B>having flowers which arise from terminal buds and thus terminate a stem or branch. A forget-me-not has determinate inflorescence. A determinate inflorescence is also called <I>cymose, definite,</I> or <I>descending.</I> adv. <B>determinately.</B> noun <B>determinateness.</B> </DL>
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<B>determination, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>great firmness in carrying out a purpose; fixed purpose. <BR> <I>Ex. My determination was not weakened by the difficulties I met.</I> (SYN) resolve, resolution. <DD><B> 2. </B>a finding out the exact amount or kind, by weighing, measuring, or calculating. <BR> <I>Ex. determination of the gold in a sample of rock.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the act of deciding; act of settling beforehand. <BR> <I>Ex. The determination of the list of things to prepare for that important trip took a long time. The determination of the best name for the product called for considerable discussion. Determination of the U.S. price, which is the keystone of the world-wide structure of crude oil prices, is divorced from normal commercial forces (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>the state of being determined; settlement; decision. <BR> <I>Ex. The doctor's determination was to operate at once.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>the result of finding out exactly; conclusion. <BR> <I>Ex. The doctor's determination was made after he received a report on the tests.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>fixed direction or tendency, as that of the blood toward a particular part of the body, or, (figuratively,) of the intellect or will toward some object or end. <DD><B> 7. </B>a determining of bounds or limits; fixing the extent, position, or identity (of anything); delimitation. <BR> <I>Ex. The determination of the property lines was required before the sale.</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>(Logic.) <DD><B> a. </B>the making of an idea, concept, etc., more precise in its outline by the addition of restrictive attributes or other qualifying features. <DD><B> b. </B>the defining of a concept by specifying its parts. <DD><B> 9a. </B>a judicial or authoritative decision or settlement of a matter at issue, such as a controversy or suit. <DD><B> b. </B>the decision arrived at; authoritative or final ruling. <DD><B> 10. </B>(Law.) a conclusion or termination. <DD><B> 11. </B>(Embryology.) the changes within embryonic cells which fix their future course of development. <BR> <I>Ex. The gene is a unit of determination (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists).</I> </DL>
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<B>determinative, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> serving or tending to determine or decide; determining; conclusive. <BR> <I>Ex. The earnings of the carriers during brief periods of time are not determinative of the reasonableness of the fare level (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a thing that determines. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Linguistics.) <DD><B> a. </B>an ideographic sign in hieroglyphic writing, annexed to a word phonetically represented, to define its meaning. <DD><B> b. </B>in certain languages: <DD><B> 3. </B>a spoken syllable having an analogous function. <DD><B> 4. </B>a determinative or demonstrative word. adv. <B>determinatively.</B> noun <B>determinativeness.</B> </DL>
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<B>determinator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person or thing that determines; determiner. </DL>
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<B>determine, </B>verb, <B>-mined,</B> <B>-mining.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to make up one's mind very firmly; come to a decision; resolve. <BR> <I>Ex. He determined to become the best scout in the troop. Narcissa determined to go at once (Thomas Love Peacock).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to come to an end; expire. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Archaic.) to take a course to a definite point or end. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to find out exactly (something previously unknown or uncertain) by observation, calculation, or surmise; fix. <BR> <I>Ex. to determine the height of a mountain. The captain determined the latitude and longitude of his ship's position.</I> (SYN) ascertain, establish. <DD><B> 2. </B>to be the deciding fact in reaching (a certain result); settle; regulate. <BR> <I>Ex. The number of answers you get right determines your mark on this test. Tomorrow's weather will determine whether we go to the beach or stay home. As in other things ... not the seller, but the buyer determines the price (Thomas Hobbes).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to fix or settle beforehand; decide. <BR> <I>Ex. Can you now determine the date for our party? The boys determined which players should be on each team by lot.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to put an end or limit to: <DD><B> a. </B>to limit in space, extent, quality, amount, or force; bound. <BR> <I>Ex. That hill determines our view.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to clarify or define (an idea, concept, or argument) by determination. <BR> <I>Ex. The meaning of a word is partly determined by its use in a particular sentence.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>to settle as a judge or arbiter; decide. <BR> <I>Ex. to determine a dispute. The laws will ... determine the punishment of the criminal (David Hume).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>to fix the geometrical position of. <DD><B> 7. </B>(Especially Law.) to bring to an end; put an end to; conclude; terminate. <DD><B> 8. </B>to direct to some conclusion: <DD><B> a. </B>to give direction, tendency, or definite bias to; decide the course of; impel to (some destination). <BR> <I>Ex. Accidental impulses determine us to different paths (Samuel Johnson).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Figurative.) to decide the course of (a person); give an aim to; influence the choice of (to do something). <BR> <I>Ex. This circumstance determined him to the study of law.</I> </DL>
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<B>determined, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>with one's mind firmly made up; resolved. <BR> <I>Ex. The determined explorer kept on his way in spite of the storm.</I> (SYN) inflexible, staunch, decided. <DD><B> 2. </B>firm; resolute. <BR> <I>Ex. a determined effort. His determined look showed that he had made up his mind. She is a lady of very determined character (George Bernard Shaw).</I> adv. <B>determinedly.</B> noun <B>determinedness.</B> </DL>
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<B>determiner, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person or thing that determines; determinant. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Linguistics.) a limiting adjective or modifier which always accompanies and usually precedes a noun or noun phrase. <I>A</I> in <I>a hat, the</I> in <I>the big house,</I> and <I>every</I> in <I>every little thing</I> are determiners. <I>That, one, some, his,</I> in <I>that boy, one piece, some people,</I> and <I>his book</I> are English determiners. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Biology.) <DD><B> a. </B>a secondary unit of germ plasm supposed to determine the character of a cell or group of cells in the organism. <DD><B> b. </B>a hereditary factor; gene. </DL>
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<B>determinism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the doctrine that human actions are the necessary results of antecedent causes. <DD><B> 2. </B>the doctrine that all events are determined by antecedent causes. <BR> <I>Ex. Determinism presumes that the initial state is given with absolute precision (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists).</I> </DL>
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<B>determinist, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a person who believes in determinism. <BR> <I>Ex. While I don't want to sound like an economic determinist, things can't really get better until all of us here in the South settle some of our pressing economic problems (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> relating to the doctrine of determinism. <BR> <I>Ex. ... the determinist view of the forces that mold men's destinies (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>deterministic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with determinism or determinists. <BR> <I>Ex. It further appears that the deterministic description of psychological phenomena and the description in terms of "free will" are not at all contradictory but complementary, adapted to different, mutually exclusive conditions (New Scientist).</I> adv. <B>deterministically.</B> </DL>
