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determinate

Do you have a determinate personal budget? Welcome to the club. So do most people, unless you happen to be Warren Buffet or Bill Gates. Anything determinate has a fixed limit to it.

Slightly differently, determinate can also refer to something that has a clearly visible limit of form. For example, although no two snowflakes are ever exactly alike, they all share a certain "determinate form," that is they all have six arms.

DEFINITIONS OF: determinate

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adj supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement

“a determinate answer to the problem”
Synonyms:
definitive
conclusive
forming an end or termination; especially putting an end to doubt or question

adj 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”
Synonyms
fixed
(of a number) having a fixed and unchanging value
Antonyms:
indeterminate, undetermined
not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance
uncertain
not established beyond doubt; still undecided or unknown
inconclusive
not conclusive; not putting an end to doubt or question
indeterminable, undeterminable
not capable of being definitely decided or ascertained
cost-plus
determining payment based on the actual cost of production plus an agreed-upon fee or rate of profit
open-ended
allowing for a spontaneous response
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adj not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex

“determinate growth”
Synonyms
cymose
having a usually flat-topped flower cluster in which the main and branch stems each end in a flower that opens before those below it or to its side
Antonyms:
indeterminate
having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex
racemose
having stalked flowers along an elongated stem that continue to open in succession from below as the stem continues to grow
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