determinate
决定性的,确定性,确定的,决定性
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Definitions
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- : having defined limits; definite.
- : settled; positive.
- : conclusive; final.
- : resolute.
- : Botany. having the primary and each secondary axis ending in a flower or bud, thus preventing further elongation.
- : Engineering. able to be analyzed completely by means of the principles of statics. subject only to definite, known stresses. able to be determined through the principles of statics.
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de·ter·mi·nat·ed, de·ter·mi·nat·ing.
- : to make certain of.
- : to identify.
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Examples
These are serious crimes that require the most serious of consequences, which is why a judge or jury sentences the individual to a lengthy determinate sentence, life imprisonment, or life imprisonment without parole.
Their error didn’t have to do with determinate attributes or some other fine philosophical point understood only by a few logicians.
We do not suffer affliction by chance, but by the determinate counsel and permission of God.
He must rather seek the absolute being by means of a determinate being, and the determinate being by means of an infinite being.
It is the recognition of the import within the practical judgment, of the given, of fact, in its determinate character.
For they imply the seeming paradox of a judgment whose proper subject-matter is its own determinate formation.
To judge value is to engage in instituting a determinate value where none is given.