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Determinative

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Tending, able, or serving to determine. See Synonyms at decisive.

n. A determining factor.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. An ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts.

adj. Determining (deciding) something.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Having power to determine; limiting; shaping; directing; conclusive.

n. That which serves to determine.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Having power to determine, fix, or decide; tending or serving to shape or direct; conclusive.

Of use in ascertaining the species; serving to determine the precise kind of a thing: as, determinative tables in the natural sciences (that is, tables arranged for determining the specific character of minerals, plants, etc., and to assist in assigning them to their species); determinative signs in hieroglyphics; determinative ornaments or structures.

n. That which determines or indicates the character or quality of something else.

n. In grammar, a determinative or demonstrative word.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. having the power or quality of deciding

n. a determining or causal element or factor

n. one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases

Word Usage

"Several factors lead Breyer to see the Ten Commandments tablets on the grounds of the Texas State Capitol as secular, but the one he calls "determinative" is that nobody has publicly complained about it before."

Equivalent

decisive

Cross Reference

determinative judgment article demonstrative

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

limiting shaping directing conclusive decisive

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

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