Definitions for determinate

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determinate de·ter·mi·nate

Spelling: [adjective dih-tur-muh-nit; verb dih- Determinate is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 738 anagrams from letters in determinate (adeeeimnrtt).

Definitions for determinate

adjective

1. having defined limits; definite.
2. settled; positive.
3. conclusive; final.
4. resolute.
5. Botany. (of an inflorescence) having the primary and each secondary axis ending in a flower or bud, thus preventing further elongation.
6. Engineering. (of a structure) able to be analyzed completely by means of the principles of statics. (of a member of a structure) subject only to definite, known stresses. (of a stress) able to be determined through the principles of statics.

verb (used with object)

1. to make certain of.
2. to identify.

Origin of determinate

1350-1400; Middle English Latin dēterminātus, past participle of dētermināre. See determine, -ate¹

Examples for determinate

To theology, God is determinate; to doubt, imperfect if determinate.

It is, in fact, determinate, because the statute prescribes its limit.

Now these aesthetical Ideas are not concepts or determinate thoughts.

She was again like the bright American air, too determinate, too sharp.

What is it that builds a house and plants a garden but the definite and determinate?

How can we avoid believing that their nature is determinate?

The given is undoubtedly just what it is; it is determinate throughout.

But that thing of his dissembling was only subject to his perceptibility, not to his will determinate.

But of two opposites, if the one be fixed and determinate, the other must be fixed and determinate also.

It is life which gives to every other possession its determinate value.