indeterminate
/ɪndɪˈtɜː(ɹ)mɪnət/
indeterminate adjective: not accurately determined or determinable.
Adjective
indeterminate (comparative more indeterminate, superlative most indeterminate)
- Not accurately determined or determinable.
- 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.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 396
- Imprecise or vague.
- Not definitively or precisely determined, because of the presence of infinity or zero symbols used in any of several improper combinations.
- With no genetically defined end, and thus theoretically limitless.
- Not topped with some form of terminal bud.
- Intersex.
- Designed to allow the incorporation of future changes whose nature is not yet known.
- It bears an affinity to the problem of indeterminate architecture—the indeterminate residential area.2014, David Oakley, The Phenomenon of Architecture in Cultures in Change, page 196
Noun
indeterminate (plural indeterminates)
- A symbol that resembles a variable or parameter but is used purely formally and neither signifies nor is ever assigned a particular value;
- 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...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...
- 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).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...
- a variable.
indeterminate meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
indeterminate in Hindi
- not accurately determined
- अपरिमित aprimit
indeterminate in Tamil
- தேரப்பெறாத, தேரா, உறுதியற்ற
indeterminate in Urdu
- بےشمار, غیرمحدود, مبہم
indeterminate in Bengali
- অনির্দিষ্ট, অনির্ণীত, অস্পষ্ট
More languagesFewer languages
- indeterminate in Malayalam
- അനിശ്ചിതമായ, ക്ലിപ്തപ്പെടുത്താത്ത, അനിർണ്ണീതം, നിശ്ചയമറ്റ
- indeterminate in Kannada
- ಅನಿರ್ಧಾರಿತ, ಅನಿರ್ಣೀತ, ಅನಿರ್ದಿಷ್ಟ, ಸಂದೇಹಾಸ್ಪದ
Examples of indeterminate in a sentence
- As form withers we are left with a directionless, transitory, indeterminate, promiscuous, and repressive space.
- Golded up your hair, even, for all your record said indeterminate.
- But, as such, it can only be an entirely indeterminate characteristic.
Synonyms of indeterminate
Antonyms
Forms of indeterminate
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more indeterminate |
| superlative | most indeterminate |
| Noun | |
| plural | indeterminates |
Words formed from indeterminate
- indeterminate equation
- indeterminate form
- indeterminate growth
- indeterminate imperfective
- indeterminately
- indeterminateness
- indeterminate state
- indeterminate system
- indeterminate verb
- seroindeterminate
- statically indeterminate
Phrases with indeterminate
Questions about indeterminate
- What does indeterminate mean?
- Indeterminate means not accurately determined or determinable.
- What is indeterminate in Hindi?
- Indeterminate in Hindi is अपरिमित (aprimit). See Indeterminate meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is indeterminate?
- Indeterminate can be an adjective or a noun.
- How do you pronounce indeterminate?
- Indeterminate is pronounced /ɪndɪˈtɜː(ɹ)mɪnət/.
Words near indeterminate in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: indeterminate (page history and authors); indeterminate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); indeterminate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Indeterminate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); indeterminate (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); indeterminate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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