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/ɪndɪˈtɜː(ɹ)mɪnət/
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ɪndɪˈtɜː(ɹ)mɪnət
Adjective
Not accurately determined or determinable.
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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.
Imprecise or vague.
Not definitively or precisely determined, because of the presence of infinity or zero symbols used in any of several improper combinations.
Usage- of certain forms of limit
With no genetically defined end, and thus theoretically limitless.
Usage- of growth
Not topped with some form of terminal bud.
Usage- of inflorescences
Intersex.
Designed to allow the incorporation of future changes whose nature is not yet known.
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It bears an affinity to the problem of indeterminate architecture—the indeterminate residential area.
Noun
A symbol that resembles a variable or parameter but is used purely formally and neither signifies nor is ever assigned a particular value;
Usage- strict-sense
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1862, H. J. Stephen Smith, Report on the Theory of Numbers—Part III, Report of the 31st Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, British Association for the Advancement of Science, page 292, The form is linear, quadratic, cubic, biquadratic or quartic, quintic, &c., according to its order in respect of the indeterminates it contains; and binary, ternary, quaternary, &c., according to the number of its indeterminates. Thus x²+y² is a binary quadratic form, x³+y³+z³-3xyz is a ternary cubic form.
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).
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.
A symbol that resembles a variable or parameter but is used purely formally and neither signifies nor is ever assigned a particular value; (loose sense) a variable. a variable.
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Adjective
not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance
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of indeterminate age
a zillion is a large indeterminate number
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an indeterminate point of law
the influence of environment is indeterminate
an indeterminate future
having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex
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an indeterminate stem
of uncertain or ambiguous nature
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the equivocal (or indeterminate) objects painted by surrealists
(of a quantity) having no definite value, as an equation that cannot be solved
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0/0 is an indeterminate form
not leading to a definite ending or result
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an indeterminate campaign