Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion.
The quality of mind which reaches definite conclusions; decision of character; resoluteness.
(countable) The state of decision; a judicial decision, or ending of controversy.
(countable) That which is determined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution.
A flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part
(countable) The act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity, etc.
The act of defining a concept or notion by giving its essential constituents.
The addition of a distinguishing featureto a concept or notion, thus limiting its extent; -- the opposite of generalization.
The act of determining the relations of an object, such as genus and species; the referring of minerals, plants, or animals, to the species to which they belong; classification
(linear algebra) The unique scalar function over square matrices which is distributive over matrix multiplication, multilinear in the rows and columns, and takes the value of 1 for the unit matrix. Abbreviation: det
(biology) A substance that causes a cell to adopt a particular fate.
“The pale, inscrutable determinateness, and flinchless intrepidity of Pierre, now began to domineer upon them; for any social unusualness or greatness is sometimes most impressive in the retrospect.”
“This determinateness of arrangement is the structure of a state of affairs.”
“But the determinateness of quantity is number, and this is the principle and standpoint of Pythagoreanism.”
“One of these determinables is number of cotyledons under which fall the determinates acotyledon, monocotyledon, and dicotyledon.”
“The determinablist has to hold that natural determinates drawn from mathematically and mereologically independent determinables are always be capable of coinstantiation.”
“Specific topics include geomancy and divinations as determinates of traditional settlements, symbolic and productive landscapes, and Maya cosmology and spatial distribution.”