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determinate

/adjective dih-tur-muh-nit; verb dih-tur-muh-neyt/US // adjective dɪˈtɜr mə nɪt; verb dɪˈtɜr məˌneɪt //UK // (dɪˈtɜːmɪnɪt) //

决定性的,确定性,确定的,决定性

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : 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.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    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.