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What's The Definition Of Indeterminate?
[adj] not clearly understood or expressed; "an indeterminate turn of phrase"; "an impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit"-Anatole Broyard; "their descriptions of human behavior become vague, dull, and unclear"- P.A.Sorokin; "vague...forms of speech...have so long passed for mysteries of science"- John Locke
[adj] not leading to a definite ending or result; "an indeterminate campaign" [adj] not capable of being determined; "an indeterminate number of plant species in the jungle" [adj] not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance; "of indeterminate age"; "a zillion is a large indeterminate number"; "an indeterminate point of law"; "the influence of environment is indeterminate"; "an indeterminate future" [adj] (botany) having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex; "an indeterminate stem" [adj] of uncertain or ambiguous nature; "the equivocal (or indeterminate) objects painted by surrealists" Synonyms | Synonyms for Indeterminate: ambiguous | cost-plus | equivocal | inconclusive | indeterminable | obscure | open-ended | racemose | unclear | undeterminable | undetermined | vague Related Terms | Find terms related to Indeterminate: abstract | accidental | adventitious | aleatoric | aleatory | amorphic | amorphous | anarchic | baggy | bland | blind | blobby | blurred | blurry | broad | casual | causeless | chance | chancy | chaotic | characterless | clear as mud | cloudy | collective | confused | contingent | dark | destinal | dicey | dim | disordered | disorderly | fatal | fatidic | featureless | fluky | foggy | formless | fortuitous | fuzzy | general | generalized | generic | hazy | hit-or-miss | iffy | ill-defined | imprecise | inaccurate | inchoate | incidental | incoherent | indecisive | indefinable | indefinite | indeterminable | indistinct | inexact | inform | kaleidoscopic | lax | loose | lumpen | misty | muddy | murky | nebulous | neutral | nondescript | nonspecific | obscure | opaque | orderless | random | risky | shadowed forth | shadowy | shapeless | stochastic | sweeping | transcendent | uncaused | uncharacterized | unclear | undefined | undestined | undetermined | undifferentiated | unexpected | unforeseeable | unforeseen | unlooked-for | unordered | unorganized | unplain | unpredictable | unspecified | vague | veiled | wide See Also | uncertain Indeterminate In Webster's Dictionary \In`de*ter"mi*nate\, a. [L. indeterminatus.]
Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not
precise; as, an indeterminate number of years. --Paley.
{Indeterminate analysis} (Math.), that branch of analysis
which has for its object the solution of indeterminate
problems.
{Indeterminate coefficients} (Math.), coefficients
arbitrarily assumed for convenience of calculation, or to
facilitate some artifice of analysis. Their values are
subsequently determined.
{Indeterminate equation} (Math.), an equation in which the
unknown quantities admit of an infinite number of values,
or sets of values. A group of equations is indeterminate
when it contains more unknown quantities than there are
equations.
{Indeterminate inflorescence} (Bot.), a mode of inflorescence
in which the flowers all arise from axillary buds, the
terminal bud going on to grow and sometimes continuing the
stem indefinitely; -- called also {acropetal, botryose,
centripetal, & indefinite inflorescence}. --Gray.
{Indeterminate problem} (Math.), a problem which admits of an
infinite number of solutions, or one in which there are
fewer imposed conditions than there are unknown or
required results.
{Indeterminate quantity} (Math.), a quantity which has no
fixed value, but which may be varied in accordance with
any proposed condition.
{Indeterminate series} (Math.), a series whose terms proceed
by the powers of an indeterminate quantity, sometimes also
with indeterminate exponents, or indeterminate
coefficients. -- {In`de*ter"mi*nate*ly} adv. --
{In`de*ter"mi*nate*ness}, n.
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