Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Undetermined.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Undetermined.

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  • adjective Archaic form of undetermined.

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Examples

  • This is essentially a tense-logical interpretation of the reflexivity + transitivity semantics for S4: in an indetermined system, we perhaps should not regard time as a linear series, as you have done.

    The Sun Is Not 2009

  • That may make the charts unable to be scored and, you know, result indetermined, but it ` s certainly not going to clear you.

    CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2008 2008

  • And that is still totally indetermined, and that's the most important thing.

    CNN Transcript Jun 11, 2006 2006

  • They sat rather like a very superior lot of waxworks, with the fixed but indetermined facial expression and with that odd air wax figures have of being aware of their existence being but a sham.

    The Arrow of Gold 2006

  • But the effects on policy of the more ambitious constructions have not been very fortunate and I confess that I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much indetermined and unpredictable, to a pretence of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.

    Friedrich August von Hayek - Prize Lecture 1992

  • They sat rather like a very superior lot of waxworks, with the fixed but indetermined facial expression and with that odd air wax figures have of being aware of their existence being but a sham.

    The Arrow of Gold : A Story Between Two Notes 1919

  • They sat rather like a very superior lot of waxworks, with the fixed but indetermined facial expression and with that odd air wax figures have of being aware of their existence being but a sham.

    The Arrow of Gold 1919

  • In this attempt the philosophy of the complex vision is bound to recognize, and include in its _rational form_, much that remains mysterious, arbitrary, indetermined, organic, obstinately illogical.

    The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917

  • For as long as the human will, as we know it now, remains in association with the aesthetic sense as we know it now, the creation of the future -- however yielding and indetermined -- must depend upon the form, the shape, the principle, the prophecy, the premonition, existing from the beginning in the nature of things.

    The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917

  • But though they seem to themselves to be "moving" into an indetermined future still to be created by their wills, they also seem to themselves to be "returning" towards the discovery of that invisible standard of beauty, truth and goodness, which has as their motive-impulse been with them from the beginning.

    The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys 1917

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