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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024de•ter•mi•na•tive (di tûr′mə nā′tiv, -nə tiv),USA pronunciation adj. - serving to determine;
determining.
n. - something that determines.
- Linguisticsa graphic symbol used in ideographic writing to denote a semantic class and written next to a word to indicate in what semantic category that word is to be understood, thus at times distinguishing homographs.
- Medieval Latin dēterminātīvus fixed, Late Latin: crucial (of a disease), equivalent. to Latin dētermināt(us) (see determinate) + -īvus -ive
- probably 1645–55
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