Definition of indeterminate in English:

indeterminate

adjective ˌɪndɪˈtəːmɪnətˌɪndəˈtərmənət

1Not exactly known, established, or defined.
the carpet is an indeterminate dull shade
the date of manufacture is indeterminate
Example sentencesExamples
- He seems to be being asked to look at what industry might need at some indeterminate time in the future.
- ‘It also allows me to make what you might call indeterminate or minor little changes, modifications,’ he acknowledges.
- Locals exercising their dogs of indeterminate breed (all hill dogs look handsome with their husky-like fur coats) acknowledged our presence with warm smiles.
- All those dark, placeless landscapes and stringy, demented characters of indeterminate sex are straight from a Freudian case study.
- It believes that a circular spaceship carrying 1,500 smaller ships filled with bombs will at some indeterminate point destroy both Britain and America.
- But I'm aware as I write this that these are the same things I write whenever I'm sick - and that this cycle of indeterminate abdominal trouble is much the same as January's.
- He specialized in what I'll call Mulberry Street people - indeterminate ethnicity, but certainly not spindly WASPs or gesticulating Levantines.
- The taxi driver was of indeterminate national origin and quizzed me as to what I did for a living.
- The parallel to Kafka is most appropriate here, but the ‘characters’ are as indeterminate as the landscape.
- Whether mental illness is attributed to a hypothetical brain disease or to an ‘internal dysfunction’ of indeterminate origin, the moral implications are the same.
- She was a ruddy-faced, cheerful blonde of indeterminate age.
- Unfortunately, the imported Italian color has faded to an indeterminate yellow.
- ‘Well, at least this bit is as it should be,’ Graham said, pointing with a half-eaten croissant at a sour-faced lady of indeterminate years, stomping along the pavement.
- The removalists are due at 7am, and at my joint some indeterminate time later to move the piano and the rest of my worldly goods for the third time in 12 months.
- A zone can be anything: its spatial characteristics are indeterminate, adequate to absorb the contradictions of the Socialist market economy.
- Luminous veils of white and yellow arise at the centers of her paintings, evoking indeterminate distance and establishing a mood of poetic reverie.
- The serious looking female civil service type of indeterminate age who sat to my left was a model of discretion prior to Jack's appearance on stage.
- An adequate account of boredom, then, must explain in one sense that only something indeterminate is lacking.
- As the argument proceeds, social reality, seen as fragmented and indeterminate, is soon dissolved into ‘discourse’.
- She was wearing a coat of an indeterminate pinkish, orangeish, reddish colour that I will call ‘hot salmon’.
Synonyms
undetermined, undefined, unspecified, unfixed, unsettled, indefinite, unknown, uncounted, uncertain, unpredictable
vague, indefinite, unspecific, unclear, obscure, nebulous, indistinct, some kind of
ambiguous, ambivalent, equivocal
amorphous, shapeless, formless, unformed, unshaped, structureless, unstructured
inexact, imprecise, inexplicit, ill-defined
hazy, faint, shadowy, dim
rare nebulose
1. 1.1 (of a judicial sentence) not of a fixed length but dependent on the convicted person's conduct.
  the abolition of the indeterminate borstal sentence for young offenders
  Example sentencesExamples
  Such engagements were of indeterminate duration, there being no fixed date for their end, and each was discharged by performance rather than expiry.
  A slightly longer period may be justifiable but indeterminate detention without judicial approval is not.
  The tariffs for murder and, for indeterminate terms, the mandatory sentences are all signs that the executive doesn't trust the judiciary.
  There has been argument about whether or not there should be an extension of the interlocutory injunction which is to expire today for a period of indeterminate length.
  Supervised probation and indeterminate sentences guided by the progress of the child were the usual means.
  Victimless crimes and indeterminate sentences were thus proscribed.
  Our common law once upon a time did not recognise indeterminate sentences.
  They are concerned that an estate of freehold must be of indeterminate duration.
  This is not a review of the position, for example, following an indeterminate sentence which may be imposed at the time of conviction.
  Meanwhile, crime-control measures were enacted mandating ‘new restrictions on the indeterminate sentence, parole, and probation’.
  He handed down an indeterminate sentence, which means the man can only released if the Parole Board decides he is not a danger to the public.
  But the new indeterminate sentence system had an immediate impact.
  This indeterminate sentence requires considerations of rehabilitation.
  The indeterminate sentence means it will be up to the parole board to decide when it is safe for the man to be released on licence.
  Overall, the Court's conclusions are expressed in terms that indicate no objection under article 3 to a mandatory indeterminate sentence for murder.
  At the meeting he pledged to introduce indeterminate sentencing for serious offenders, meaning they would not be released from prison until it was proved they were safe.
  He said the only sentence he could pass is indeterminate life sentences.
2. 1.2Mathematics (of a quantity) having no definite or definable value.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Samples were interpreted as indeterminate if the OD values were in the range 0.3-0.5 units.
  Firstly Abu Kamil is the first Arabic mathematician who we know solved indeterminate problems of the type found in Diophantus's work.
  Problems of this type which are found in the manuscript are examined in and some of these lead to indeterminate equations.
  He considers problems of indeterminate equations of the first degree and trigonometric formulas.
  The Arithmetica is a collection of 130 problems giving numerical solutions of determinate equations (those with a unique solution), and indeterminate equations.
  Books 1-3 contain linear or quadratic indeterminate equations, many of them simultaneous.
  He then continued his studies at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics investigating an indeterminate equation of degree three.
3. 1.3Medicine (of a condition) from which a diagnosis of the underlying cause cannot be made.
  indeterminate colitis
  Example sentencesExamples
  This indeterminate nodule was excluded from the analysis.
  Extrapolating our findings to this high risk population indicates that screening would identify more than 180 million uncalcified, radiologically indeterminate nodules.
  These can be used to resolve the infection status of individuals with indeterminate serological results.
  Additionally, for lesions without obvious calcifications or for those with indeterminate calcifications, a phantom study can be done.
  Many centres, however, suggest surgical excision of all indeterminate follicular lesions to make a definitive histological diagnosis.
  Such cases tended to display abundant inflammation and were classified as indeterminate for dysplasia.
2Botany
(of a shoot) not having all the axes terminating in a flower bud and so potentially of indefinite length.
Example sentencesExamples
- The reproductive shoot apex contains the indeterminate, primary inflorescence meristem that produces the main inflorescence axis of the plant.
- The propagules of these predominantly arctic/alpine grasses consist of indeterminate spikelets, which revert to vegetative growth before dehiscing from the parent plant.
- This model is characterized by a single monopodial trunk and plagiotropic, indeterminate branches.
- In the first step, a leaf primordium is formed that involves a switch from indeterminate to leaf developmental fate in the shoot apical meristem cells.
- Leaves in vascular plants are produced by determinate growth on the flanks of indeterminate shoot apical meristems.

Derivatives

indeterminacy

nounˌɪndɪˈtəːmɪnəsiˌɪndəˈtərmənəsi

Where are the jazz musicians prepared to embrace this ‘double consciousness’ of jazz, to revel in its indeterminacy, yet commit to its particular rigour?
Example sentencesExamples
- They represent past events that can be superimposed over present events to produce duration and enhance indeterminacy for individuals as social beings.
- Habitat is where sociality takes place, a territory characterised by indeterminacy and ambivalence.
- The act of writing provided him with just this moment of indeterminacy - of liberation and disappearance.
- I appreciated anew that the road to hell is paved, if not necessarily with good intentions, then with indeterminacy, caution, uncertainty and fear.
- In this context, indeterminacy does not mean magnitude.

indeterminately

adverb ˌɪndɪˈtəːmɪnətliˌɪndəˈtərmənətli

The distorted fragments often appear androgynous, but even when gender is evident, it becomes clear that the video treats male and female bodies indeterminately.
Example sentencesExamples
- The unlined, irregularly shaped, indeterminately sized chambers suggest that the new trace was the domicile for an arthropod, perhaps an amphipod-like or an isopod-like crustacean.
- The consequence of this legislation is that people who may well not commit a further crime can be detained indeterminately, in effect, for the rest of their lives.
- Further complicating the scene, the even ground surrounding this support is indeterminately located in space.
- Evidence of this nature is admissible to show what the parties had in mind, however indeterminately, with regard to the basis of remuneration.

indeterminateness

nounˌɪndɪˈtəːmɪnətnəsˌɪndəˈtərmənətnəs

Pure being, he says, is pure indeterminateness and vacuity.
Example sentencesExamples
- The existence of time may explain the indeterminateness of things.
- Its grandeur fabricates a challenge to the indeterminateness of fate, even more so its finality, by preserving love and hope as viable antidotes to inevitable ends.
- Uncertainty and indeterminateness are main properties of natural language.

Origin

Early 17th century: from late Latin indeterminatus, from in- 'not' + Latin determinatus 'limited, determined' (see determinate).

Definition of indeterminate in US English:

indeterminate

adjectiveˌindəˈtərmənətˌɪndəˈtərmənət

1Not exactly known, established, or defined.
the date of manufacture is indeterminate
Example sentencesExamples
- Locals exercising their dogs of indeterminate breed (all hill dogs look handsome with their husky-like fur coats) acknowledged our presence with warm smiles.
- ‘Well, at least this bit is as it should be,’ Graham said, pointing with a half-eaten croissant at a sour-faced lady of indeterminate years, stomping along the pavement.
- Unfortunately, the imported Italian color has faded to an indeterminate yellow.
- All those dark, placeless landscapes and stringy, demented characters of indeterminate sex are straight from a Freudian case study.
- But I'm aware as I write this that these are the same things I write whenever I'm sick - and that this cycle of indeterminate abdominal trouble is much the same as January's.
- He seems to be being asked to look at what industry might need at some indeterminate time in the future.
- The removalists are due at 7am, and at my joint some indeterminate time later to move the piano and the rest of my worldly goods for the third time in 12 months.
- Luminous veils of white and yellow arise at the centers of her paintings, evoking indeterminate distance and establishing a mood of poetic reverie.
- He specialized in what I'll call Mulberry Street people - indeterminate ethnicity, but certainly not spindly WASPs or gesticulating Levantines.
- ‘It also allows me to make what you might call indeterminate or minor little changes, modifications,’ he acknowledges.
- She was a ruddy-faced, cheerful blonde of indeterminate age.
- A zone can be anything: its spatial characteristics are indeterminate, adequate to absorb the contradictions of the Socialist market economy.
- She was wearing a coat of an indeterminate pinkish, orangeish, reddish colour that I will call ‘hot salmon’.
- It believes that a circular spaceship carrying 1,500 smaller ships filled with bombs will at some indeterminate point destroy both Britain and America.
- Whether mental illness is attributed to a hypothetical brain disease or to an ‘internal dysfunction’ of indeterminate origin, the moral implications are the same.
- The parallel to Kafka is most appropriate here, but the ‘characters’ are as indeterminate as the landscape.
- An adequate account of boredom, then, must explain in one sense that only something indeterminate is lacking.
- The serious looking female civil service type of indeterminate age who sat to my left was a model of discretion prior to Jack's appearance on stage.
- As the argument proceeds, social reality, seen as fragmented and indeterminate, is soon dissolved into ‘discourse’.
- The taxi driver was of indeterminate national origin and quizzed me as to what I did for a living.
Synonyms
undetermined, undefined, unspecified, unfixed, unsettled, indefinite, unknown, uncounted, uncertain, unpredictable
vague, indefinite, unspecific, unclear, obscure, nebulous, indistinct, some kind of
1. 1.1 (of a judicial sentence) such that the convicted person's conduct determines the date of release.
  Example sentencesExamples
  The indeterminate sentence means it will be up to the parole board to decide when it is safe for the man to be released on licence.
  He handed down an indeterminate sentence, which means the man can only released if the Parole Board decides he is not a danger to the public.
  This is not a review of the position, for example, following an indeterminate sentence which may be imposed at the time of conviction.
  Overall, the Court's conclusions are expressed in terms that indicate no objection under article 3 to a mandatory indeterminate sentence for murder.
  A slightly longer period may be justifiable but indeterminate detention without judicial approval is not.
  This indeterminate sentence requires considerations of rehabilitation.
  Victimless crimes and indeterminate sentences were thus proscribed.
  He said the only sentence he could pass is indeterminate life sentences.
  Such engagements were of indeterminate duration, there being no fixed date for their end, and each was discharged by performance rather than expiry.
  But the new indeterminate sentence system had an immediate impact.
  There has been argument about whether or not there should be an extension of the interlocutory injunction which is to expire today for a period of indeterminate length.
  Meanwhile, crime-control measures were enacted mandating ‘new restrictions on the indeterminate sentence, parole, and probation’.
  The tariffs for murder and, for indeterminate terms, the mandatory sentences are all signs that the executive doesn't trust the judiciary.
  Supervised probation and indeterminate sentences guided by the progress of the child were the usual means.
  They are concerned that an estate of freehold must be of indeterminate duration.
  At the meeting he pledged to introduce indeterminate sentencing for serious offenders, meaning they would not be released from prison until it was proved they were safe.
  Our common law once upon a time did not recognise indeterminate sentences.
2. 1.2Mathematics (of a quantity) having no definite or definable value.
  Example sentencesExamples
  He then continued his studies at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics investigating an indeterminate equation of degree three.
  The Arithmetica is a collection of 130 problems giving numerical solutions of determinate equations (those with a unique solution), and indeterminate equations.
  Samples were interpreted as indeterminate if the OD values were in the range 0.3-0.5 units.
  Problems of this type which are found in the manuscript are examined in and some of these lead to indeterminate equations.
  Books 1-3 contain linear or quadratic indeterminate equations, many of them simultaneous.
  He considers problems of indeterminate equations of the first degree and trigonometric formulas.
  Firstly Abu Kamil is the first Arabic mathematician who we know solved indeterminate problems of the type found in Diophantus's work.
3. 1.3Medicine (of a condition) from which a diagnosis of the underlying cause cannot be made.
  indeterminate colitis
  Example sentencesExamples
  Additionally, for lesions without obvious calcifications or for those with indeterminate calcifications, a phantom study can be done.
  This indeterminate nodule was excluded from the analysis.
  These can be used to resolve the infection status of individuals with indeterminate serological results.
  Such cases tended to display abundant inflammation and were classified as indeterminate for dysplasia.
  Extrapolating our findings to this high risk population indicates that screening would identify more than 180 million uncalcified, radiologically indeterminate nodules.
  Many centres, however, suggest surgical excision of all indeterminate follicular lesions to make a definitive histological diagnosis.
4. 1.4Botany (of a plant shoot) not having all the axes terminating in a flower bud and so producing a shoot of indefinite length.
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the first step, a leaf primordium is formed that involves a switch from indeterminate to leaf developmental fate in the shoot apical meristem cells.
  This model is characterized by a single monopodial trunk and plagiotropic, indeterminate branches.
  The reproductive shoot apex contains the indeterminate, primary inflorescence meristem that produces the main inflorescence axis of the plant.
  Leaves in vascular plants are produced by determinate growth on the flanks of indeterminate shoot apical meristems.
  The propagules of these predominantly arctic/alpine grasses consist of indeterminate spikelets, which revert to vegetative growth before dehiscing from the parent plant.

Origin

Early 17th century: from late Latin indeterminatus, from in- ‘not’ + Latin determinatus ‘limited, determined’ (see determinate).

单词	indeterminate
释义	Definition of indeterminate in English: indeterminate adjective ˌɪndɪˈtəːmɪnətˌɪndəˈtərmənət 1Not exactly known, established, or defined. the carpet is an indeterminate dull shade the date of manufacture is indeterminate Example sentencesExamples He seems to be being asked to look at what industry might need at some indeterminate time in the future. ‘It also allows me to make what you might call indeterminate or minor little changes, modifications,’ he acknowledges. Locals exercising their dogs of indeterminate breed (all hill dogs look handsome with their husky-like fur coats) acknowledged our presence with warm smiles. All those dark, placeless landscapes and stringy, demented characters of indeterminate sex are straight from a Freudian case study. It believes that a circular spaceship carrying 1,500 smaller ships filled with bombs will at some indeterminate point destroy both Britain and America. But I'm aware as I write this that these are the same things I write whenever I'm sick - and that this cycle of indeterminate abdominal trouble is much the same as January's. He specialized in what I'll call Mulberry Street people - indeterminate ethnicity, but certainly not spindly WASPs or gesticulating Levantines. The taxi driver was of indeterminate national origin and quizzed me as to what I did for a living. The parallel to Kafka is most appropriate here, but the ‘characters’ are as indeterminate as the landscape. Whether mental illness is attributed to a hypothetical brain disease or to an ‘internal dysfunction’ of indeterminate origin, the moral implications are the same. She was a ruddy-faced, cheerful blonde of indeterminate age. Unfortunately, the imported Italian color has faded to an indeterminate yellow. ‘Well, at least this bit is as it should be,’ Graham said, pointing with a half-eaten croissant at a sour-faced lady of indeterminate years, stomping along the pavement. The removalists are due at 7am, and at my joint some indeterminate time later to move the piano and the rest of my worldly goods for the third time in 12 months. A zone can be anything: its spatial characteristics are indeterminate, adequate to absorb the contradictions of the Socialist market economy. Luminous veils of white and yellow arise at the centers of her paintings, evoking indeterminate distance and establishing a mood of poetic reverie. The serious looking female civil service type of indeterminate age who sat to my left was a model of discretion prior to Jack's appearance on stage. An adequate account of boredom, then, must explain in one sense that only something indeterminate is lacking. As the argument proceeds, social reality, seen as fragmented and indeterminate, is soon dissolved into ‘discourse’. She was wearing a coat of an indeterminate pinkish, orangeish, reddish colour that I will call ‘hot salmon’. Synonyms undetermined, undefined, unspecified, unfixed, unsettled, indefinite, unknown, uncounted, uncertain, unpredictable vague, indefinite, unspecific, unclear, obscure, nebulous, indistinct, some kind of ambiguous, ambivalent, equivocal amorphous, shapeless, formless, unformed, unshaped, structureless, unstructured inexact, imprecise, inexplicit, ill-defined hazy, faint, shadowy, dim rare nebulose 1.1 (of a judicial sentence) not of a fixed length but dependent on the convicted person's conduct. the abolition of the indeterminate borstal sentence for young offenders Example sentencesExamples Such engagements were of indeterminate duration, there being no fixed date for their end, and each was discharged by performance rather than expiry. A slightly longer period may be justifiable but indeterminate detention without judicial approval is not. The tariffs for murder and, for indeterminate terms, the mandatory sentences are all signs that the executive doesn't trust the judiciary. There has been argument about whether or not there should be an extension of the interlocutory injunction which is to expire today for a period of indeterminate length. Supervised probation and indeterminate sentences guided by the progress of the child were the usual means. Victimless crimes and indeterminate sentences were thus proscribed. Our common law once upon a time did not recognise indeterminate sentences. They are concerned that an estate of freehold must be of indeterminate duration. This is not a review of the position, for example, following an indeterminate sentence which may be imposed at the time of conviction. Meanwhile, crime-control measures were enacted mandating ‘new restrictions on the indeterminate sentence, parole, and probation’. He handed down an indeterminate sentence, which means the man can only released if the Parole Board decides he is not a danger to the public. But the new indeterminate sentence system had an immediate impact. This indeterminate sentence requires considerations of rehabilitation. The indeterminate sentence means it will be up to the parole board to decide when it is safe for the man to be released on licence. Overall, the Court's conclusions are expressed in terms that indicate no objection under article 3 to a mandatory indeterminate sentence for murder. At the meeting he pledged to introduce indeterminate sentencing for serious offenders, meaning they would not be released from prison until it was proved they were safe. He said the only sentence he could pass is indeterminate life sentences. 1.2Mathematics (of a quantity) having no definite or definable value. Example sentencesExamples Samples were interpreted as indeterminate if the OD values were in the range 0.3-0.5 units. Firstly Abu Kamil is the first Arabic mathematician who we know solved indeterminate problems of the type found in Diophantus's work. Problems of this type which are found in the manuscript are examined in and some of these lead to indeterminate equations. He considers problems of indeterminate equations of the first degree and trigonometric formulas. The Arithmetica is a collection of 130 problems giving numerical solutions of determinate equations (those with a unique solution), and indeterminate equations. Books 1-3 contain linear or quadratic indeterminate equations, many of them simultaneous. He then continued his studies at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics investigating an indeterminate equation of degree three. 1.3Medicine (of a condition) from which a diagnosis of the underlying cause cannot be made. indeterminate colitis Example sentencesExamples This indeterminate nodule was excluded from the analysis. Extrapolating our findings to this high risk population indicates that screening would identify more than 180 million uncalcified, radiologically indeterminate nodules. These can be used to resolve the infection status of individuals with indeterminate serological results. Additionally, for lesions without obvious calcifications or for those with indeterminate calcifications, a phantom study can be done. Many centres, however, suggest surgical excision of all indeterminate follicular lesions to make a definitive histological diagnosis. Such cases tended to display abundant inflammation and were classified as indeterminate for dysplasia. 2Botany (of a shoot) not having all the axes terminating in a flower bud and so potentially of indefinite length. Example sentencesExamples The reproductive shoot apex contains the indeterminate, primary inflorescence meristem that produces the main inflorescence axis of the plant. The propagules of these predominantly arctic/alpine grasses consist of indeterminate spikelets, which revert to vegetative growth before dehiscing from the parent plant. This model is characterized by a single monopodial trunk and plagiotropic, indeterminate branches. In the first step, a leaf primordium is formed that involves a switch from indeterminate to leaf developmental fate in the shoot apical meristem cells. Leaves in vascular plants are produced by determinate growth on the flanks of indeterminate shoot apical meristems. Derivatives indeterminacy nounˌɪndɪˈtəːmɪnəsiˌɪndəˈtərmənəsi Where are the jazz musicians prepared to embrace this ‘double consciousness’ of jazz, to revel in its indeterminacy, yet commit to its particular rigour? Example sentencesExamples They represent past events that can be superimposed over present events to produce duration and enhance indeterminacy for individuals as social beings. Habitat is where sociality takes place, a territory characterised by indeterminacy and ambivalence. The act of writing provided him with just this moment of indeterminacy - of liberation and disappearance. I appreciated anew that the road to hell is paved, if not necessarily with good intentions, then with indeterminacy, caution, uncertainty and fear. In this context, indeterminacy does not mean magnitude. indeterminately adverb ˌɪndɪˈtəːmɪnətliˌɪndəˈtərmənətli The distorted fragments often appear androgynous, but even when gender is evident, it becomes clear that the video treats male and female bodies indeterminately. Example sentencesExamples The unlined, irregularly shaped, indeterminately sized chambers suggest that the new trace was the domicile for an arthropod, perhaps an amphipod-like or an isopod-like crustacean. The consequence of this legislation is that people who may well not commit a further crime can be detained indeterminately, in effect, for the rest of their lives. Further complicating the scene, the even ground surrounding this support is indeterminately located in space. Evidence of this nature is admissible to show what the parties had in mind, however indeterminately, with regard to the basis of remuneration. indeterminateness nounˌɪndɪˈtəːmɪnətnəsˌɪndəˈtərmənətnəs Pure being, he says, is pure indeterminateness and vacuity. Example sentencesExamples The existence of time may explain the indeterminateness of things. Its grandeur fabricates a challenge to the indeterminateness of fate, even more so its finality, by preserving love and hope as viable antidotes to inevitable ends. Uncertainty and indeterminateness are main properties of natural language. Origin Early 17th century: from late Latin indeterminatus, from in- 'not' + Latin determinatus 'limited, determined' (see determinate). Definition of indeterminate in US English: indeterminate adjectiveˌindəˈtərmənətˌɪndəˈtərmənət 1Not exactly known, established, or defined. the date of manufacture is indeterminate Example sentencesExamples Locals exercising their dogs of indeterminate breed (all hill dogs look handsome with their husky-like fur coats) acknowledged our presence with warm smiles. ‘Well, at least this bit is as it should be,’ Graham said, pointing with a half-eaten croissant at a sour-faced lady of indeterminate years, stomping along the pavement. Unfortunately, the imported Italian color has faded to an indeterminate yellow. All those dark, placeless landscapes and stringy, demented characters of indeterminate sex are straight from a Freudian case study. But I'm aware as I write this that these are the same things I write whenever I'm sick - and that this cycle of indeterminate abdominal trouble is much the same as January's. He seems to be being asked to look at what industry might need at some indeterminate time in the future. The removalists are due at 7am, and at my joint some indeterminate time later to move the piano and the rest of my worldly goods for the third time in 12 months. Luminous veils of white and yellow arise at the centers of her paintings, evoking indeterminate distance and establishing a mood of poetic reverie. He specialized in what I'll call Mulberry Street people - indeterminate ethnicity, but certainly not spindly WASPs or gesticulating Levantines. ‘It also allows me to make what you might call indeterminate or minor little changes, modifications,’ he acknowledges. She was a ruddy-faced, cheerful blonde of indeterminate age. A zone can be anything: its spatial characteristics are indeterminate, adequate to absorb the contradictions of the Socialist market economy. She was wearing a coat of an indeterminate pinkish, orangeish, reddish colour that I will call ‘hot salmon’. It believes that a circular spaceship carrying 1,500 smaller ships filled with bombs will at some indeterminate point destroy both Britain and America. Whether mental illness is attributed to a hypothetical brain disease or to an ‘internal dysfunction’ of indeterminate origin, the moral implications are the same. The parallel to Kafka is most appropriate here, but the ‘characters’ are as indeterminate as the landscape. An adequate account of boredom, then, must explain in one sense that only something indeterminate is lacking. The serious looking female civil service type of indeterminate age who sat to my left was a model of discretion prior to Jack's appearance on stage. As the argument proceeds, social reality, seen as fragmented and indeterminate, is soon dissolved into ‘discourse’. The taxi driver was of indeterminate national origin and quizzed me as to what I did for a living. Synonyms undetermined, undefined, unspecified, unfixed, unsettled, indefinite, unknown, uncounted, uncertain, unpredictable vague, indefinite, unspecific, unclear, obscure, nebulous, indistinct, some kind of 1.1 (of a judicial sentence) such that the convicted person's conduct determines the date of release. Example sentencesExamples The indeterminate sentence means it will be up to the parole board to decide when it is safe for the man to be released on licence. He handed down an indeterminate sentence, which means the man can only released if the Parole Board decides he is not a danger to the public. This is not a review of the position, for example, following an indeterminate sentence which may be imposed at the time of conviction. Overall, the Court's conclusions are expressed in terms that indicate no objection under article 3 to a mandatory indeterminate sentence for murder. A slightly longer period may be justifiable but indeterminate detention without judicial approval is not. This indeterminate sentence requires considerations of rehabilitation. Victimless crimes and indeterminate sentences were thus proscribed. He said the only sentence he could pass is indeterminate life sentences. Such engagements were of indeterminate duration, there being no fixed date for their end, and each was discharged by performance rather than expiry. But the new indeterminate sentence system had an immediate impact. There has been argument about whether or not there should be an extension of the interlocutory injunction which is to expire today for a period of indeterminate length. Meanwhile, crime-control measures were enacted mandating ‘new restrictions on the indeterminate sentence, parole, and probation’. The tariffs for murder and, for indeterminate terms, the mandatory sentences are all signs that the executive doesn't trust the judiciary. Supervised probation and indeterminate sentences guided by the progress of the child were the usual means. They are concerned that an estate of freehold must be of indeterminate duration. At the meeting he pledged to introduce indeterminate sentencing for serious offenders, meaning they would not be released from prison until it was proved they were safe. Our common law once upon a time did not recognise indeterminate sentences. 1.2Mathematics (of a quantity) having no definite or definable value. Example sentencesExamples He then continued his studies at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics investigating an indeterminate equation of degree three. The Arithmetica is a collection of 130 problems giving numerical solutions of determinate equations (those with a unique solution), and indeterminate equations. Samples were interpreted as indeterminate if the OD values were in the range 0.3-0.5 units. Problems of this type which are found in the manuscript are examined in and some of these lead to indeterminate equations. Books 1-3 contain linear or quadratic indeterminate equations, many of them simultaneous. He considers problems of indeterminate equations of the first degree and trigonometric formulas. Firstly Abu Kamil is the first Arabic mathematician who we know solved indeterminate problems of the type found in Diophantus's work. 1.3Medicine (of a condition) from which a diagnosis of the underlying cause cannot be made. indeterminate colitis Example sentencesExamples Additionally, for lesions without obvious calcifications or for those with indeterminate calcifications, a phantom study can be done. This indeterminate nodule was excluded from the analysis. These can be used to resolve the infection status of individuals with indeterminate serological results. Such cases tended to display abundant inflammation and were classified as indeterminate for dysplasia. Extrapolating our findings to this high risk population indicates that screening would identify more than 180 million uncalcified, radiologically indeterminate nodules. Many centres, however, suggest surgical excision of all indeterminate follicular lesions to make a definitive histological diagnosis. 1.4Botany (of a plant shoot) not having all the axes terminating in a flower bud and so producing a shoot of indefinite length. Example sentencesExamples In the first step, a leaf primordium is formed that involves a switch from indeterminate to leaf developmental fate in the shoot apical meristem cells. This model is characterized by a single monopodial trunk and plagiotropic, indeterminate branches. The reproductive shoot apex contains the indeterminate, primary inflorescence meristem that produces the main inflorescence axis of the plant. Leaves in vascular plants are produced by determinate growth on the flanks of indeterminate shoot apical meristems. The propagules of these predominantly arctic/alpine grasses consist of indeterminate spikelets, which revert to vegetative growth before dehiscing from the parent plant. Origin Early 17th century: from late Latin indeterminatus, from in- ‘not’ + Latin determinatus ‘limited, determined’ (see determinate).
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