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Indeterminate

//ɪndɪˈtɜː(ɹ)mɪnət// adj, noun

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Not accurately determined or determinable.

    "Four miles to the east of Warmington, the River Cherwell flows into Cropredy under a bridge that in 1644 was the scene of another Civil War battle - with an equally indeterminate result."

  2. 2
    Imprecise or vague.
  3. 3
    Not definitively or precisely determined, because of the presence of infinity or zero symbols used in any of several improper combinations.
  4. 4
    With no genetically defined end, and thus theoretically limitless.
  5. 5
    Not topped with some form of terminal bud.
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  1. 6
    Intersex.
  2. 7
    Designed to allow the incorporation of future changes whose nature is not yet known.

    "It bears an affinity to the problem of indeterminate architecture—the indeterminate residential area."

Adjective
  1. 1
    not leading to a definite ending or result wordnet
  2. 2
    (of a quantity) having no definite value, as an equation that cannot be solved wordnet
  3. 3
    not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance wordnet
  4. 4
    having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex wordnet
  5. 5
    of uncertain or ambiguous nature wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A symbol that resembles a variable or parameter but is used purely formally and neither signifies nor is ever assigned a particular value; strict-sense

    "1862, H. J. Stephen Smith, Report on the Theory of Numbers—Part III, Report of the 31st Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, British Association for the Advancement of Science, page 292, The form is linear, quadratic, cubic, biquadratic or quartic, quintic, &c., according to its order in respect of the indeterminates it contains; and binary, ternary, quaternary, &c., according to the number of its indeterminates. Thus x²+y² is a binary quadratic form, x³+y³+z³-3xyz is a ternary cubic form."

  2. 2
    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. strict-sense

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