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determiner /dɪˈtəːmɪnə /noun1A person or thing that determines or decides something.And the judge had an opportunity, as an independent determiner of facts, to determine whether or not she is in a persistent vegetative state....- The judge will be the final determiner and that is in November and our panel will assemble right after this.
- The real surprise is that in terms of total population and population density (the things I think are the biggest single determiners of whether a railway is viable or not) Los Angeles is remarkably similar to both New York and London.
2 Grammar A modifying word that determines the kind of reference a noun or noun group has, for example a, the, every. See also article.The idea that the determiner heads a noun phrase might seem counterintuitive to some readers....- I'm no kind of expert on translation, but if they'd asked me, I would have been tempted to nominate some morphological category like inchoative, or some preposition or determiner.
- In this intermediate period, especially indefinite determiners seem to be distributed in a quite clear cut way according to the specificity of the referents introduced by the respective noun phrases.
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