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Determinate

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Adjective

1. determinate

precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause

Example Sentences:
'a determinate distance'
'a determinate number'
'determinate variations in animals'

2. determinate

not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex

Example Sentences:
'determinate growth'

3. definitive, determinate

supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement

Example Sentences:
'a definitive verdict'
'a determinate answer to the problem'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Determinate

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adjective
1. 
definitely limited, defined, or fixed; distinct
2.  a less common word for determined
3. 
a. 
able to be predicted or deduced
b. 
(of an effect) obeying the law of causality
4. botany
(of an inflorescence) having the main and branch stems ending in flowers and unable to grow further; cymose
5. 
(of a structure, stress, etc) able to be fully analysed or determined

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Determinate

see synonyms of determinate
adjective
1. 
having exact limits; definite; distinct; fixed
2. 
settled or decided; conclusive
3.  Botany
having a flower at the end of the primary axis and of each secondary axis; cymose

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Determinate

see synonyms of determinate
adj.
1. Precisely limited or defined; definite: a determinate number; a determinate distance.
2. Conclusively settled; final.
3. Firm in purpose; resolute.
4. Botany
a. Terminating in a flower and blooming in a sequence beginning with the uppermost or central flower: a determinate inflorescence.
b. Not continuing indefinitely at the tip of an axis: determinate growth.

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