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Determiner

noun
1.
An argument that is conclusive.  Synonyms: clincher, determining factor.
2.
One of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases.  Synonym: determinative.
3.
A determining or causal element or factor.  Synonyms: causal factor, determinant, determinative, determining factor.






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"Determiner" Quotes from Famous Books



... ont le droit de constater, par eux memes ou par leur representants, la necessite de la contribution publique, de la consentir librement, d'en suivre l'emploi, et d'en determiner la qualite, l'assiette, le ...
— The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens • Georg Jellinek

... simplicity of those early ideas,—though it must be said that some students of eugenics have not yet outgrown them. In those days it was thought that every visible character in man (or in any other organism) was represented by some "determiner" in the germ-plasm; that by suitable matings a breeder could rid a stream of germ-plasm of almost any determiner he wished; and that the corresponding unit character would thereupon disappear from the visible make-up of the individual. Was a family reported as showing a taint, for instance, ...
— Applied Eugenics • Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson

... j'exige de toi, ma fille, c'est de ne te determiner a le refuser qu'avec connoissance de cause. Attends encore. Tu me remercieras du delai que je demande, je ...
— A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux • Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux

... Jan. 21. 1689/90 On the same day William wrote thus from Kensington to Portland: "C'est aujourd'hui le grand jour l'eguard du Bill of Indemnite. Selon tout ce que is puis aprendre, il y aura beaucoup de chaleur, et rien determiner; et de la maniere que la chose est entourre, il n'y a point d'aparence que cette affaire viene a aucune conclusion. Et ainsi il se pouroit que la cession fust fort courts; n'ayant plus dargent ...
— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 3 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... Freres-precheurs. Ceux-ci, au nombre de cinq, avoient pour chef un nomme Ascelin, et parmi eux etoit un frere Simon, de Saint-Quentin, dont j'aurai bientot occasion de parler. Ils etoient, comme les Freres-mineurs, porteurs de lettres apostoliques, et avoient aupres des Tartares la meme mission, celle de determiner ce peuple formidable a s'abstenir de toute guerre ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, - and Discoveries of The English Nation, Volume 10 - Asia, Part III • Richard Hakluyt



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