determinate

Meanings

Adjective

• Distinct, clearly defined.
• Fixed, set, unvarying.
• Of growth: ending once a genetically predetermined structure has formed.
• Conclusive; decisive; positive.
• Determined or resolved upon.
• Of determined purpose; resolute.

Noun

• A single state of a particular determinable attribute.

Verb

• To bring to an end; to determine.

Related

Opposite words

• indeterminate, nondeterminate
• indeterminate

Origin

• From Middle English determinate, determynat, determinat, from Latin dēterminātus, perfect passive participle of dēterminō.
• From Middle English determinaten, from the adjective (see above).