Definitions for determiner

• Definition
• Anagrams (324)

determiner de·ter·min·er

Spelling: [dih-tur-muh-ner]

IPA: /dɪˈtɜr mə nər/

Determiner is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 324 anagrams from letters in determiner (deeeimnrrt).

Definitions for determiner

noun

1. a person or thing that determines.
2. Grammar. a member of a subclass of English limiting adjectival words that usually precede descriptive adjectives and include the articles the, a, and an, and any words that may substitute for them, as your, their, some, and each.

Origin of determiner

First recorded in 1520-30; determine + -er¹

Examples for determiner

He felt the adequacy of this life as a determiner of the eternal destiny of all men.

That is, the determiner for red is absent from the white variety.

Then there must be a determiner, the expression of which was mathematical ability.

Then it must be due to a determiner for a notch in the ear in the germ-plasm.

The determiner is weakened, and so the median comb is imperfectly developed, namely, at the anterior end of its proper territory.

"Gene" and "determiner" are sometimes used as synonyms of factor.

That means that there is a determiner for it which is grouped with other determiners in one of the chromosomes.

He appears also to have confused the idea of a standard of value with that of a determiner of value.

Even in a pure strain a determiner does not always develop fully, and this is an important cause of individual variability.

Suppose the determiner of a certain character (violet colour of flower in the bean) is located in a chromosome A of this species.