資料來源 : pyDict
確定的,一定的,決定的
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Determinate \De*ter"mi*nate\, v. t.
To bring to an end; to determine. See {Determine}. [Obs.]
The sly, slow hours shall not determinate The dateless
limit of thy dear exile. --Shak.
Determinate \De*ter"mi*nate\, a. [L. determinatus, p. p. of
determinare. See {Determine}.]
1. Having defined limits; not uncertain or arbitrary; fixed;
established; definite.
Quantity of words and a determinate number of feet.
--Dryden.
2. Conclusive; decisive; positive.
The determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God.
--Acts ii. 23.
3. Determined or resolved upon. [Obs.]
My determinate voyage. --Shak.
4. Of determined purpose; resolute. [Obs.]
More determinate to do than skillful how to do.
--Sir P.
Sidney.
{Determinate inflorescence} (Bot.), that in which the
flowering commences with the terminal bud of a stem, which
puts a limit to its growth; -- also called {centrifugal
inflorescence}.
{Determinate problem} (Math.), a problem which admits of a
limited number of solutions.
{Determinate quantities}, {Determinate equations} (Math.),
those that are finite in the number of values or
solutions, that is, in which the conditions of the problem
or equation determine the number.
資料來源 : WordNet®
determinate
adj 1: precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed
by rule or by a specific and constant cause; "a
determinate distance"; "a determinate number";
"determinate variations in animals" [ant: {indeterminate}]
2: not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex;
"determinate growth" [ant: {indeterminate}]
3: supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement; "a
definitive verdict"; "a determinate answer to the problem"
[syn: {definitive}]