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indeterminate 音标拼音: [ ,ɪndɪt'ɚmɪnɪt] a. 不确的,不确定的,含混的 不确的,不确定的,含混的 indeterminate不定 indeterminate adj 1: not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance; " of indeterminate age"; " a zillion is a large indeterminate number"; " an indeterminate point of law"; " the influence of environment is indeterminate"; " an indeterminate future" [ synonym: { indeterminate}, { undetermined}] [ ant: { determinate}] 2: having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex; " an indeterminate stem" [ ant: { determinate}] 3: of uncertain or ambiguous nature; " the equivocal ( or indeterminate) objects painted by surrealists" 4: not capable of being determined; " the indeterminate number of plant species in the jungle" 5: not leading to a definite ending or result; " an indeterminate campaign" Indeterminate \ In` de* ter" mi* nate\, a. [ L. indeterminatus.] Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not precise; as, an indeterminate number of years. -- Paley. [ 1913 Webster] { Indeterminate analysis} ( Math.), that branch of analysis which has for its object the solution of indeterminate problems. { Indeterminate coefficients} ( Math.), coefficients arbitrarily assumed for convenience of calculation, or to facilitate some artifice of analysis. Their values are subsequently determined. { Indeterminate equation} ( Math.), an equation in which the unknown quantities admit of an infinite number of values, or sets of values. A group of equations is indeterminate when it contains more unknown quantities than there are equations. { Indeterminate inflorescence} ( Bot.), a mode of inflorescence in which the flowers all arise from axillary buds, the terminal bud going on to grow and sometimes continuing the stem indefinitely; -- called also { acropetal inflorescence}, { botryose inflorescence}, { centripetal inflorescence}, and { indefinite inflorescence}. -- Gray. { Indeterminate problem} ( Math.), a problem which admits of an infinite number of solutions, or one in which there are fewer imposed conditions than there are unknown or required results. { Indeterminate quantity} ( Math.), a quantity which has no fixed value, but which may be varied in accordance with any proposed condition. { Indeterminate series} ( Math.), a series whose terms proceed by the powers of an indeterminate quantity, sometimes also with indeterminate exponents, or indeterminate coefficients. -- { In` de* ter" mi* nate* ly} adv. -- { In` de* ter" mi* nate* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster] 100 Moby Thesaurus words for " indeterminate": abstract, accidental, adventitious, aleatoric, aleatory, amorphic, amorphous, anarchic, baggy, bland, blind, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, casual, causeless, chance, chancy, chaotic, characterless, clear as mud, cloudy, collective, confused, contingent, dark, destinal, dicey, dim, disordered, disorderly, fatal, fatidic, featureless, fluky, foggy, formless, fortuitous, fuzzy, general, generalized, generic, hazy, hit- or- miss, iffy, ill- defined, imprecise, inaccurate, inchoate, incidental, incoherent, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminable, indistinct, inexact, inform, kaleidoscopic, lax, loose, lumpen, misty, muddy, murky, nebulous, neutral, nondescript, nonspecific, obscure, opaque, orderless, random, risky, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, stochastic, sweeping, transcendent, uncaused, uncharacterized, unclear, undefined, undestined, undetermined, undifferentiated, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unlooked- for, unordered, unorganized, unplain, unpredictable, unspecified, vague, veiled, wide
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