indeterminate

Meanings

Plural: indeterminates

Adjective

• 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"
• having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex
  • "an indeterminate stem"

Adjective Satellite

• of uncertain or ambiguous nature
  • "the equivocal (or indeterminate) objects painted by surrealists"
• not capable of being determined
  • "the indeterminate number of plant species in the jungle"
• not leading to a definite ending or result
  • "an indeterminate campaign"

Adj

• Not accurately determined or determinable.
• Imprecise or vague.
• Not definitively or precisely determined, because of the presence of infinity or zero symbols used in any of several improper combinations.
• With no genetically defined end, and thus theoretically limitless.
• Not topped with some form of terminal bud.
• Intersex.
• Designed to allow the incorporation of future changes whose nature is not yet known.

Noun

• A symbol that resembles a variable or parameter but is used purely formally and neither signifies nor is ever assigned a particular value;
• A symbol that resembles a variable or parameter but is used purely formally and neither signifies nor is ever assigned a particular value; (loose sense) a variable.
• a variable.

Synonyms

indeterminant, undetermined

Antonyms

determinate

Related Words

indefinite, indeterminacy, undetermined

Anagrams of indeterminate