Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Impossible to fix or measure.
- adjective Impossible to settle or decide with finality.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Incapable of being determined, ascertained, or fixed.
- Not to be determined or ended; interminable.
- In natural history, not definable; incapable of specialization: said of a specimen which, from its nature or condition, cannot be properly classified and named.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not determinable; impossible to be determined; not to be definitely known, ascertained, defined, or limited.
- noun An indeterminable thing or quantity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective That is incapable of being
measured - adjective That is incapable of being
ascertained - noun An indeterminable thing or quantity.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not capable of being definitely decided or ascertained
- adjective incapable of being definitely ascertained
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Examples
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I mean if something is "profoundly and disturbingly evident" why is the hour "indeterminable"?
Archive 2007-04-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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Light pains in my chest, the indeterminable gurgle in my stomach, a swaying before my eyes.
Books in 2009, #5 pabba 2009
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My mother's participation in the mandate has been indeterminable.
Jason Kitchen: To My Dearest Mumsy: Thank You for Not Being a 'Tiger Mother' Jason Kitchen 2011
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My mother's participation in the mandate has been indeterminable.
Jason Kitchen: To My Dearest Mumsy: Thank You for Not Being a 'Tiger Mother' Jason Kitchen 2011
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And as seemingly indeterminable day, dwindled to a close,
Work Camp 10760 L 2010
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Some indeterminable element or substance on a great, ultramacrocosmic world!
"He Who Shrank" by Henry Hasse, part 1 Johnny Pez 2010
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Some indeterminable element or substance on a great, ultramacrocosmic world!
Archive 2010-06-01 Johnny Pez 2010
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Obviously their hiring standards plummeted to indeterminable lows when he joined it:
Pennock on postmodernism in ID creationism - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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The storm truly is deterministic (an event causally determined by prior events) in that the hurricane winds really were the consequence of a beating butterfly wing, but indeterminable because in practice the cause can never be discerned.
Jeff Schweitzer: Myths of Wall Street, the Sequel: Fat Finger Fandango 2010
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"All contradiction disappears," Kant writes, "if I say: the judgment of taste does depend upon a concept ... but one from which nothing can be cognized in respect of the Object, and nothing proved, because it is in itself indeterminable and useless for knowledge"
Contention and Contestation: Aesthetic Culture in Kant and Bourdieu 2008
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