Definition of determine

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Determine (v. t.) To define or limit by adding a differentia.

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Remainder-man :: Remainder-man (n.) One who has an estate after a particular estate is determined. See Remainder, n., 3..
Will :: Will (v. i.) To exercise an act of volition; to choose; to decide; to determine; to decree.
Peremptory :: Peremptory (a.) Firmly determined; unawed.
Depend :: Depend (v. i.) To hang in suspense; to be pending; to be undetermined or undecided; as, a cause depending in court..
Judge :: "Judge (v. t.) To hear and determine by authority, as a case before a court, or a controversy between two parties..
Determine :: Determine (v. t.) To fix the form or character of; to shape; to prescribe imperatively; to regulate; to settle.
Fate :: Fate (n.) A fixed decree by which the order of things is prescribed; the immutable law of the universe; inevitable necessity; the force by which all existence is determined and conditioned.
Diagometer :: Diagometer (n.) A sort of electroscope, invented by Rousseau, in which the dry pile is employed to measure the amount of electricity transmitted by different bodies, or to determine their conducting power..
Ordeal :: Ordeal (n.) An ancient form of test to determine guilt or innocence, by appealing to a supernatural decision, -- once common in Europe, and still practiced in the East and by savage tribes..
Suspend :: Suspend (n.) To hold in an undetermined or undecided state; as, to suspend one's judgment or opinion..
Vernier :: Vernier (n.) A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument..
Horizon :: Horizon (n.) The chief horizontal line in a picture of any sort, which determines in the picture the height of the eye of the spectator; in an extended landscape, the representation of the natural horizon corresponds with this line..
Will :: Will (n.) To form a distinct volition of; to determine by an act of choice; to ordain; to decree.
Rubber :: Rubber (n.) In some games, as whist, the odd game, as the third or the fifth, when there is a tie between the players; as, to play the rubber; also, a contest determined by the winning of two out of three games; as, to play a rubber of whist..
Monad :: Monad (n.) The elementary and indestructible units which were conceived of as endowed with the power to produce all the changes they undergo, and thus determine all physical and spiritual phenomena..
Predetermined :: Predetermined (imp. & p. p.) of Predetermin.
Decree :: Decree (v. t.) To determine judicially by authority, or by decree; to constitute by edict; to appoint by decree or law; to determine; to order; to ordain; as, a court decrees a restoration of property..
Equivalent :: Equivalent (n.) That comparative quantity by weight of an element which possesses the same chemical value as other elements, as determined by actual experiment and reference to the same standard. Specifically: (a) The comparative proportions by which one element replaces another in any particular compound; thus, as zinc replaces hydrogen in hydrochloric acid, their equivalents are 32.5 and 1. (b) The combining proportion by weight of a substance, or the number expressing this proportion, in any
Cognizable :: Cognizable (a.) Fitted to be a subject of judicial investigation; capable of being judicially heard and determined.
Conjectural :: Conjectural (a.) Dependent on conjecture; fancied; imagined; guessed at; undetermined; doubtful.
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