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indeterminate

Dictionary definition · indeterminate

adjective

  1. not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance"of indeterminate age"
  2. having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex"an indeterminate stem"
  3. of uncertain or ambiguous nature"the equivocal (or indeterminate) objects painted by surrealists"
  4. (of a quantity) having no definite value, as an equation that cannot be solved"0/0 is an indeterminate form"
  5. not leading to a definite ending or result"an indeterminate campaign"

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Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).