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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Determinate \De*ter"mi*nate\, v. t. To bring to an end to determine. See {Determine}. [Obs.] The sly, slow hours shall not determinate The dateless limit of thy dear exile. --Shak. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Determinate \De*ter"mi*nate\, a. [L. determinatus p. p. of determinare. See {Determine}.] 1. Having defined limits; not uncertain or arbitrary; fixed; established; definite. Quantity of words and a determinate number of feet. --Dryden. 2. Conclusive; decisive; positive. The determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God. --Acts ii 23. 3. Determined or resolved upon [Obs.] My determinate voyage. --Shak. 4. Of determined purpose; resolute. [Obs.] More determinate to do than skillful how to do --Sir P. Sidney. {Determinate inflorescence} (Bot.), that in which the flowering commences with the terminal bud of a stem, which puts a limit to its growth; -- also called {centrifugal inflorescence}. {Determinate problem} (Math.), a problem which admits of a limited number of solutions. {Determinate quantities}, {Determinate equations} (Math.), those that are finite in the number of values or solutions, that is in which the conditions of the problem or equation determine the number. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: determinate adj 1: precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause "a determinate distance"; "a determinate number"; "determinate variations in animals" [ant: {indeterminate}] 2: (botany) not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex; "determinate growth" [ant: {indeterminate}] 3: supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement; "a definitive verdict"; "a determinate answer to the problem" [syn: {definitive}]
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