indeterminate

[In`de*ter·mi*nate]

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.

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Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not precise; as, an indeterminate number of years.

Adjective S.
not leading to a definite ending or result; "an indeterminate campaign"

Adjective S.
not capable of being determined; "the indeterminate number of plant species in the jungle"

Adjective
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"

Adjective
having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex; "an indeterminate stem"

Adjective S.
of uncertain or ambiguous nature; "the equivocal (or indeterminate) objects painted by surrealists"

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a.
Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not precise; as, an indeterminate number of years.

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. 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, ∧ 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.

Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not precise; as, an indeterminate number of years.

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