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indeterminate

/in-di-tur-muh-nit/US // ˌɪn dɪˈtɜr mə nɪt //UK // (ˌɪndɪˈtɜːmɪnɪt) //

不确定的,未确定的,不确定,未定的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not determinate; not precisely fixed in extent; indefinite; uncertain.
    • : not clear; vague.
    • : not established.
    • : not settled or decided.
    • : Mathematics. undefined, as 0/0. able to be satisfied by more than one value for each unknown.
    • : Botany. having the axis or axes not ending in a flower or bud, thus allowing further elongation.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Mathematics. something whose value is not specified: used especially in abstract algebra; a variable.

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Examples

  • A legend in Los Angeles cycling circles, Shirtless Keith is a burly man of indeterminate age who rides around hilly Palos Verdes wearing work boots, denim cutoffs, and no shirt.

  • They would get a negative result or indeterminate result from tests that detect N protein antibodies.

  • Counting down the moments they have left with Abdullah, always an indeterminate amount.

  • Some gospel music, like Blind Willie Johnson's, chronicles an indeterminate journey to an unknown destination.

  • First, Troy depicts the cemetery as having indeterminate and ever-shifting borders.

  • Before that its landscape had been indeterminate—there were even strips where the Kat goes to sea.

  • Precisely who would bear the brunt of $400 billion in proposed cuts in military spending was left indeterminate.

  • I had wondered at that indeterminate quotient in my sums, where the same figure came, always the same, running on and on.

  • Full of whims and fancies, unstable, indeterminate, he was swayed by every passing emotion and influence.

  • Like the Board of Guardians, it is a most useful body; but its influence upon village life is indirect and indeterminate.

  • She found the word indicating to whom degrees should be granted indeterminate, with no character of sex attached to it.

  • Matter in a more general sense is the indeterminate, the indefinite and the potential.

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