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Indeterminate   /ˌɪndɪtˈərmɪnɪt/   Listen
Indeterminate

adjective
1.
Not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance.  Synonym: undetermined.  "A zillion is a large indeterminate number" , "An indeterminate point of law" , "The influence of environment is indeterminate" , "An indeterminate future"
2.
Having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex.
3.
Of uncertain or ambiguous nature.
4.
Not capable of being determined.
5.
Not leading to a definite ending or result.



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"Indeterminate" Quotes from Famous Books



... system (the principle of the indeterminate system) and made the prisoners' liberation depend upon their conduct and character and not upon the original offence. Maconochie's experience led him to write in after years to a friend, "if you would try a social-moral one (prison system) you would soon get important results. If our punishments ...
— A Plea for the Criminal • James Leslie Allan Kayll
... to other rectangular, excavated caverns. On the plans, they were marked as storerooms. Cases and crates, indeterminate shrouded objects; some had never been disturbed, but here and there they ...
— The Cosmic Computer • Henry Beam Piper
... wandering breeze from the river, was nipped, as it were, by the frigid spirit of age and formalism in its living occupants. Mrs. de Tracy, a lady of seventy-five, sat at her writing-table. Her companion, Miss Smeardon, a person of indeterminate age, nursed the lap-dog Rupert during such time as her employer was too deeply engaged to fulfil that agreeable duty. Mrs. de Tracy, as she wrote, was surrounded by countless photographs of her family ...
— Robinetta • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... of nature to consist in its periodic evolution from and return into one infinite sum of material (to apeiron), which, much in the manner of the "nebula" of modern science, is conceived as both indeterminate in its actual state and infinitely rich in its potentiality. The conception of matter, the most familiar commonplace of science, begins to be recognizable. It has here reached the point of signifying a common substance for all tangible things, a substance that in its own general and ...
— The Approach to Philosophy • Ralph Barton Perry
... the subtle curve of her eyelids, the low full brow with its waving line of soft black hair, seemed to brood over the lower part of the face with its still indeterminate curves, over the wholly immature figure of ...
— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton


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