indefinite

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It was to lead to "something" -- indefinite, mysterious.

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  1. adjective Not definite, especially:
  2. adjective Unclear; vague.
  3. adjective Lacking precise limits: an indefinite leave of absence.

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  • The tool is already in place to go after "overly broad" claims. 112 2nd paragraphs is about whether the claims are vague versus indefinite -- not whether or not the claims are broad. —  Patent Law Blog (Patently-O)
  • The punishment for the six players 'late night restaurant visit is "indefinite," Mokry said. —  SLAM! Sports
  • If it was indefinite, then Christ died for no one particularly. —  Heidelblog
  • Things like approving torture, holding prisoners in jail for years and years -- indefinite detention -- deprived of all legal rights, not allowed to communicate with their families who might not even know where they went, deprived of visits even from the Red Cross. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
  • Roche argued that the disclosure in the specification of undefined "mutants, analogs and allelic variants" as falling within the scope of the term "human erythropoietin" was enough to render the term indefinite, and the Court disagreed. —  Patent Docs
 

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  1. = French indéfini = Spanish indefinido = Portuguese indefinido, indefinito = Italian indefinito, from Latin indefinitus, indefinite, from in- privative + definitus, limited, definite: see definite.
 

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/ɪnˈdɛfɪnɪt/
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