| 单词 | determination |
| 释义 | determination /di terr'meuh nay"sheuhn/, n. 1. the act of coming to a decision or of fixing or settling a purpose. 2. ascertainment, as after observation or investigation: determination of a ship's latitude. 3. the information ascertained; solution. 4. the settlement of a dispute, question, etc., as by authoritative decision. 5. the decision or settlement arrived at or pronounced. 6. the quality of being resolute; firmness of purpose. 7. a fixed purpose or intention: It is my determination to suppress vice. 8. the fixing or settling of amount, limit, character, etc.: the determination of a child's allowance. 9. fixed direction or tendency toward some object or end. 10. Chiefly Law. conclusion or termination. 11. Embryol. the fixation of the fate of a cell or group of cells, esp. before actual morphological or functional differentiation occurs. 12. Logic. a. the act of rendering a notion more precise by the addition of differentiating characteristics. b. the definition of a concept in terms of its constituent elements. [1350-1400; ME ( < AF) < L determination- (s. of determinatio) a boundary, conclusion, equiv. to determinat(us) (see DETERMINATE) + -ion- -ION] |
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