indeterminate
/ɪndɪˈtɜː(ɹ)mɪnət/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.88 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Not accurately determined or determinable.
adj
Not definitively or precisely determined, because of the presence of infinity or zero symbols used in any of several improper combinations.
adj
With no genetically defined end, and thus theoretically limitless.
adj
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "It bears an affinity to the problem of indeterminate architecture—the indeterminate residential area."
- "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."
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
Phrases
indeterminate equation
indeterminate form
indeterminate growth
indeterminate imperfective
indeterminate state
indeterminate system
indeterminate verb
statically indeterminate