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- noun Plural form of
indeterminate .
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Examples
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She kept up this strange behavior until Liz turned her face back to the crowd of indeterminates that were jumping up to her knees and lovingly kissing her there.
scusteister: Singularity vs. Your Twilight Zone scusteister 2009
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Arkansas Traveler These mild pink indeterminates were developed in the nineteenth century at the University of Arkansas for southern gardens, but they do well in Maine.
THE ARROWS COOKBOOK Clark Frasier 2003
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Black Krim Our gardener says these deep purple indeterminates look like bruises.
THE ARROWS COOKBOOK Clark Frasier 2003
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Given their longer flowering period, most indeterminates have uneven pod maturity with the harvest period stretched out over a number of weeks.
Chapter 7 1981
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And pruning the leaf area of indeterminates is counterproductive: to grow hugely, the roots need food from a full complement of leaves.
Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway Steve Solomon
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From the odorous jungle they came, flitting in gay inconsequence, steering a course of "slanting indeterminates," yet full of the power and the passion of the moment.
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Your summer-grown indeterminates can serve as donor plants for rooted cuttings to start your winter crop (keep reading). and Your Budget
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There is more to perplex us; for we see the original indeterminate Energy throwing out general determinates of itself,—we might equally in their relation to the variety of their products call them generic indeterminates,—with their appropriate states of substance and determined forms of that substance: the latter are numerous, sometimes innumerable variations on the substance-energy which is their base: but none of these variations seems to be predetermined by anything in the nature of the general indeterminate.
The major Truth is that mind determines body Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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There is more to perplex us; for we see the original indeterminate Energy throwing out general determinates of itself,—we might equally in their relation to the variety of their products call them generic indeterminates,—with their appropriate states of substance and determined forms of that substance: the latter are numerous, sometimes innumerable variations on the substance-energy which is their base: but none of these variations seems to be predetermined by anything in the nature of the general indeterminate.
Archive 2008-03-01 Tusar N Mohapatra 2008
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‘thaten’ should be used with reference both to the matter and to the accidents; for both are indeterminates.
Metaphysics Aristotle 2002
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