Determinative

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Determinative \De*ter"mi*na*tive\, a. [Cf. F. d['e]terminatif.]
     Having power to determine; limiting; shaping; directing;
     conclusive.
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           Incidents . . . determinative of their course. --I.


                                                    Taylor.
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     {Determinative tables} (Nat. Hist.), tables presenting the
        specific character of minerals, plants, etc., to assist in
        determining the species to which a specimen belongs.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Determinative \De*ter"mi*na*tive\, n.
     That which serves to determine.
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           Explanatory determinatives . . . were placed after
           words phonetically expressed, in order to serve as an
           aid to the reader in determining the meaning. --I.
                                                    Taylor (The
                                                    Alphabet).
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  determinative
       adj : having the power or quality of deciding; "the crucial
             experiment"; "cast the deciding vote"; "the
             determinative (or determinant) battle" [syn: {crucial},
              {deciding(a)}, {determinant}, {determining(a)}]
       n 1: one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the
            referents of noun phrases [syn: {determiner}]
       2: a determining or causal element or factor; "education is an
          important determinant of one's outlook on life" [syn: {determinant},
           {determiner}, {determining factor}, {causal factor}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  140 Moby Thesaurus words for "determinative":
     absolute, adducible, admissible, antecedents, arrowhead, article,
     assuring, attestative, attestive, authentic, authoritative, base,
     based on, basis, behind the scenes, bordering, borderline,
     boundary, bounding, call, caudal, causal, causation, causative,
     cause, cause and effect, certain, character, circumstantial,
     coastal, conclusive, constitutive, convictional, convincing,
     cumulative, cuneiform, damning, decisive, definite article,
     definitive, demotic character, determinant, determiner,
     determining, documentary, documented, effectual, element, endmost,
     etiological, etiology, eventual, evidential, evidentiary, ex parte,
     extreme, eye-witness, factor, factual, farthest, final, firsthand,
     formative, founded on, fringing, frontier, grammalogue, ground,
     grounded on, grounds, hearsay, hieratic symbol, hieroglyph,
     hieroglyphic, hieroglyphics, hiragana, ideogram, ideograph,
     implicit, impressive, incontrovertible, indefinite article,
     indicative, indisputable, institutive, irrefutable, irresistible,
     kana, katakana, last, limbic, liminal, limit, limiting, littoral,
     logogram, logograph, marginal, material, noun determiner,
     nuncupative, occasion, occasional, ogham, originative,
     overwhelming, persuasive, phonetic, phonetic symbol, pictogram,
     pictograph, pivotal, polar, presumptive, principle, probative,
     radical, reliable, rimming, rune, satisfactory, satisfying,
     shorthand, significant, skirting, stimulus, suggestive, sure,
     symptomatic, tail, telling, terminal, terminating, terminative,
     threshold, ultimate, valid, wedge, weighty, word letter