Preordained
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Preordained is a verb meaning simple past and past participle of preordain.
Meaning
simple past and past participle of preordain.
More Meanings
- determined in advance; predestined
Example Sentences
The difficulty of each puzzle would increase as the number of miners increased, which would keep production to one block of transactions roughly every 10 minutes. In addition, the size of each block bounty would halve every 210,000 blocks—first from 50 bitcoins to 25, then from 25 to 12.5, and so on. Around the year 2140, the currency would reach its preordained limit of 21 million bitcoins.
Synonyms for preordained
Depending on context, synonyms include fateful, foreordained, bashert, destined, doomed, fated.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include predestine, foreordain, predetermined, predefined, appointed, predestined.
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