Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Able or serving to determine: synonym: decisive.
- noun A determining factor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having power to determine, fix, or decide; tending or serving to shape or direct; conclusive.
- Of use in ascertaining the species; serving to determine the precise kind of a thing: as, determinative tables in the natural sciences (that is, tables arranged for determining the specific character of minerals, plants, etc., and to assist in assigning them to their species); determinative signs in hieroglyphics; determinative ornaments or structures.
- noun That which determines or indicates the character or quality of something else.
- noun In grammar, a determinative or demonstrative word.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having power to determine; limiting; shaping; directing; conclusive.
- adjective (Nat. Hist.) tables presenting the specific character of minerals, plants, etc., to assist in determining the species to which a specimen belongs.
- noun That which serves to determine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun linguistics An
ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words inlogographic scripts. - adjective
Determining (deciding ) something.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having the power or quality of deciding
- noun a determining or causal element or factor
- noun one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases
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Examples
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Several factors lead Breyer to see the Ten Commandments tablets on the grounds of the Texas State Capitol as secular, but the one he calls "determinative" is that nobody has publicly complained about it before.
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So even McGann's landmark essay, "Keats and the Historical Method of Literary Criticism," which provocatively situated Keats's aesthetic practices and their history of reception within determinative cultural, social, and especially political contexts, has not really altered what
The Know of Not to Know It: My Returns to Reading and Teaching Keats's 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' - 2003
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Many of their roots are identical; their plural forms are closely related; and in all the feminine determinative is alike.
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In the first place, then, it is important to bear in mind that the numerous spirits, when introduced into the religious and other texts, are almost invariably preceded by a sign -- technically known as a determinative -- which stamps them as divine.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891
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When Heisenberg's indeterminacy is understood not as describing the events themselves but rather our knowledge of the events, the Causal Principle still holds and can still be applied to the initial singularity, although we cannot expect to achieve any kind of determinative predictability about what occurs given the cause.
Cosmological Argument Reichenbach, Bruce 2008
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Well, obviously, this is all coming to what appears to be some kind of determinative and climatic moment here.
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It is interesting to note that the "determinative" of old age in hieroglyphic writing is the picture of a man afflicted with arthritis deformans.
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It is interesting to note that the "determinative" of old age in hieroglyphic writing is the picture of a man afflicted with arthritis deformans.
The Evolution of Modern Medicine A Series of Lectures Delivered at Yale University on the Silliman Foundation in April, 1913 William Osler 1884
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The sitting figure with the hand to its face is what we call the 'determinative' of 'thought'; and the roll of papyrus that of
The Jewel of Seven Stars Bram Stoker 1879
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For instance, the "determinative" of a god -- the sign that is, which marks that the name of a god is about to follow, in this early rectilinear writing is [--] an eight-rayed star.
qroqqa commented on the word determinative
Term used in the CGEL for the word class containing a, the, one, two, each, no, all etc., by other authors often called determiners. The CGEL uses 'determiner' to mean the functional position at the front of a noun phrase (often called specifier by others).
August 15, 2008