When you determine something, you decide on what it is, which means you put limits or boundaries on its identity. So something indeterminate lacks identifying limits. A mutt is usually …

If law is indeterminate, then judges are unconstrained by law in their decision-making.

If something is indeterminate, you cannot say exactly what it is. Dr Amid was a man of indeterminate age. I hope to carry on for an indeterminate period.

The term ‘indeterminate’ describes something that does not have a clear or fixed limit or boundary. It can refer to a situation where a specific outcome is not predictable or known.

Definition of indeterminate adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

Indeterminate means not known or decided. When someone contracts a rare stomach parasite but has not been traveling internationally, you might say it had indeterminate origins.

6 days ago · indeterminate (plural indeterminates) (algebra, strict sense) A symbol that resembles a variable or parameter but is used purely formally and neither signifies nor is ever assigned a …

Indeterminate definition: not determinate; not precisely fixed in extent; indefinite; uncertain.. See examples of INDETERMINATE used in a sentence.

Uncertain, not fixed, or not capable of being determined. "The length of the project was indeterminate, with no clear end in sight." It can be used to describe a situation, a state of …

indeterminate adjective uncertain, indefinite, unspecified, vague, inconclusive, imprecise, undefined, undetermined, inexact, unfixed, unstipulated I hope to carry on for an indeterminate …