Determinative Definition & Meaning

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Determinative

Determinative Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Determinative? [n] a determining or causal element or factor; "education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life" [n] one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases [adj] having the power or quality of deciding; "the crucial experiment"; "cast the deciding vote"; "the determinative (or determinant) battle" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Determinative: causal factor \| crucial \| deciding(a) \| decisive \| determinant \| determinant \| determiner \| determiner \| determining factor \| determining(a) Related Terms \| Find terms related to Determinative: absolute \| adducible \| admissible \| antecedents \| arrowhead \| article \| assuring \| attestative \| attestive \| authentic \| authoritative \| base \| based on \| basis \| behind the scenes \| bordering \| borderline \| boundary \| bounding \| call \| caudal \| causal \| causation \| causative \| cause \| cause and effect \| certain \| character \| circumstantial \| coastal \| conclusive \| constitutive \| convictional \| convincing \| cumulative \| cuneiform \| damning \| decisive \| definite article \| definitive \| demotic character \| determinant \| determiner \| determining \| documentary \| documented \| effectual \| element \| endmost \| etiological \| etiology \| eventual \| evidential \| evidentiary \| ex parte \| extreme \| eye-witness \| factor \| factual \| farthest \| final \| firsthand \| formative \| founded on \| fringing \| frontier \| grammalogue \| ground \| grounded on \| grounds \| hearsay \| hieratic symbol \| hieroglyph \| hieroglyphic \| hieroglyphics \| hiragana \| ideogram \| ideograph \| implicit \| impressive \| incontrovertible \| indefinite article \| indicative \| indisputable \| institutive \| irrefutable \| irresistible \| kana \| katakana \| last \| limbic \| liminal \| limit \| limiting \| littoral \| logogram \| logograph \| marginal \| material \| noun determiner \| nuncupative \| occasion \| occasional \| ogham \| originative \| overwhelming \| persuasive \| phonetic \| phonetic symbol \| pictogram \| pictograph \| pivotal \| polar \| presumptive \| principle \| probative \| radical \| reliable \| rimming \| rune \| satisfactory \| satisfying \| shorthand \| significant \| skirting \| stimulus \| suggestive \| sure \| symptomatic \| tail \| telling \| terminal \| terminating \| terminative \| threshold \| ultimate \| valid \| wedge \| weighty \| word letter See Also \| article \| clincher \| closed-class word \| cognitive factor \| decisive factor \| function word \| influence Determinative In Webster's Dictionary \Deter"minative\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]terminatif.] Having power to determine; limiting; shaping; directing; conclusive. Incidents . . . determinative of their course. --I. Taylor. {Determinative tables} (Nat. Hist.), tables presenting the specific character of minerals, plants, etc., to assist in determining the species to which a specimen belongs. \Deter"minative\, n. That which serves to determine. Explanatory determinatives . . . were placed after words phonetically expressed, in order to serve as an aid to the reader in determining the meaning. --I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

Determinative Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Determinative?

[n] a determining or causal element or factor; "education is an important determinant of one's outlook on life"
[n] one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases
[adj] having the power or quality of deciding; "the crucial experiment"; "cast the deciding vote"; "the determinative (or determinant) battle"

Determinative In Webster's Dictionary

\De*ter"mi*na*tive\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]terminatif.]
Having power to determine; limiting; shaping; directing;
conclusive.

      Incidents . . . determinative of their course. --I.
                                               Taylor.

{Determinative tables} (Nat. Hist.), tables presenting the
   specific character of minerals, plants, etc., to assist in
   determining the species to which a specimen belongs.


\De*ter"mi*na*tive\, n.
That which serves to determine.

      Explanatory determinatives . . . were placed after
      words phonetically expressed, in order to serve as an
      aid to the reader in determining the meaning. --I.
                                               Taylor (The
                                               Alphabet).

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