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adjective

Determinate adj.

Having defined limits; not uncertain or arbitrary; fixed; established; definite. "Quantity of words and a determinate number of feet."

Conclusive; decisive; positive. "The determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God."

Determined or resolved upon. (Obs.) "My determinate voyage."

Of determined purpose; resolute. (Obs.) "More determinate to do than skillful how to do."

Determinate inflorescence (Bot.), that in which the flowering commences with the terminal bud of a stem, which puts a limit to its growth; also called centrifugal inflorescence.

Determinate problem (Math.), a problem which admits of a limited number of solutions.

Determinate quantities, Determinate equations (Math.), those that are finite in the number of values or solutions, that is, in which the conditions of the problem or equation determine the number.

verb

Determinate v. t. To bring to an end; to determine. See Determine. (Obs.) "The sly, slow hours shall not determinate The dateless limit of thy dear exile."

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Etymology of 'Determinate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Determinate" Quotes from Famous Books

... death and dissolution do not come; and the annihilation of all nature is not possible; but it attains from time to time, by a fixed law, to renew itself and to change all its parts, rearranging and recombining them; all this necessarily taking place in a determinate series, under which everything ...

— Montaigne and Shakspere • John M. Robertson

... marry brunettes, but no blondes; the color of the whiskers being more determinate of the temperament than that of ...

— Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners • B.G. Jefferis

... said Pangloss; "liberty is consistent with absolute necessity, for it was necessary we should be free; for, in short, the determinate will——" ...

— Candide • Voltaire

... other hard stone, capable of permanently retaining any superficial markings which may have been imprinted upon it, is usually smoothed or polished, like the erratics above described, and exhibits parallel striae and furrows having a determinate direction. This direction, both in Europe and North America, agrees generally in a marked manner with the course taken by the erratic blocks in the same district. The boulder clay, when it was first studied, seemed in many of its characters so singular and ...

— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell

... of this atchievement, in order to prosecute our journey; but we follow no determinate course. We make small deviations, to see the remarkable towns, villas, and curiosities on each side of our route; so that we advance by slow steps towards the borders of Monmouthshire: but in the midst of these irregular ...

— The Expedition of Humphry Clinker • Tobias Smollett

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