Indeterminate

Quick meaning: Indeterminate is an adjective meaning Not accurately determined or determinable.

Meaning

Not accurately determined or determinable.

More Meanings

1. Imprecise or vague.
2. (biology, of growth) With no genetically defined end, and thus theoretically limitless.
3. (botany, of inflorescences) Not topped with some form of terminal bud.
4. Intersex.
5. (architecture) Designed to allow the incorporation of future changes whose nature is not yet known.
6. (mathematical analysis, of certain forms of limit) Not definitively or precisely determined, because of the presence of infinity or zero symbols used in any of several improper combinations.
7. (algebra, strict sense) A symbol that resembles a variable or parameter but is used purely formally and neither signifies nor is ever assigned a particular value;

Example Sentences

It bears an affinity to the problem of indeterminate architecture—the indeterminate residential area.

Four miles to the east of Warmington, the River Cherwell flows into Cropredy under a bridge that in 1644 was the scene of another Civil War battle - with an equally indeterminate result.

2006, Alexander B. Levin, Difference Algebra, M. Hazewinkel, Handbook of Algebra, page 251, Let T=T_σ and let S be the polynomial R-algebra in the set of indeterminates y_i,τ_(i∈I,τ∈T) with indices from the set I×T.

1892, Henry B. Fine, Kronecker and His Arithmetical Theory of the Algebraic Equation, Thomas S. Fiske, Harold Jacoby (editors), Bulletin of the New York Mathematical Society, Volume 1, New York Mathematical Society, page 179, Such a factor is therefore an integral function of x and the indeterminates u_1,u_2,…u_n with coefficients belonging to the domain of rationality (R',R,..) and may be represented by g(x,u_1,u_2,..u_n).

Word Forms

• indeterminates

Synonyms for indeterminate

Depending on context, synonyms include indeterminant, obscure, ambiguous, equivocal, vague, unclear.

Antonyms for indeterminate

Common opposites include determinate.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include undetermined, indeterminable, undeterminable, inconclusive, vague, open-ended.

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