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English Dictionary: indeterminate	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
indeterminate adj 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(s): indeterminate, undetermined Antonym(s): determinate having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex; "an indeterminate stem" Antonym(s): determinate of uncertain or ambiguous nature; "the equivocal (or indeterminate) objects painted by surrealists" not capable of being determined; "the indeterminate number of plant species in the jungle" not leading to a definite ending or result; "an indeterminate campaign"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Indeterminate \In`deter"minate\, a. [L. indeterminatus.] Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not precise; as, an indeterminate number of years. --Paley. {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, botryose, centripetal, [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`deter"minately} adv. -- {In`deter"minateness}, n.