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DETERMINATE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement
Example:
a determinate answer to the problem
Synonyms:
definitive; determinate
Classified under:
Similar:
conclusive (forming an end or termination; especially putting an end to doubt or question)
Derivation:
determinateness (the quality of being predictable with great confidence)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause
Example:
determinate variations in animals
Classified under:
Similar:
fixed ((of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value)
Antonym:
indeterminate (not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance)
Derivation:
determinateness (the quality of being predictable with great confidence)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex
Example:
determinate growth
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
cymose (having a usually flat-topped flower cluster in which the main and branch stems each end in a flower that opens before those below it or to its side)
Domain category:
botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)
Antonym:
indeterminate (having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb determinate
