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单词 indeterminate
释义
indeterminate
adjective
uk
/ˌɪn.dɪˈtɜː.mɪ.nət/us
/ˌɪn.dɪˈtɝː.mɪ.nət/
notmeasured,counted, orclearlyknown:
不确定的；不明确的
An indeterminatenumberofworkershave already beenexposedto thedanger.一些工人已处在这种危险中，具体人数尚不清楚。
a man of indeterminateage年龄不详的男子
Opposite
determinateformal
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  • amorphous
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  • blurry
  • circumstantial
  • conflicted
  • dodgy
  • insecurely
  • insecurity
  • it remains to be seenidiom
  • it's early daysidiom
  • joker in the packidiom
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  • sputter
  • squishy
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indeterminacy
(Definition ofindeterminatefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

indeterminate| American Dictionary

indeterminate
adjective
us
/ˌɪn·dɪˈtɜr·mə·nət/
notclearlydeterminedorestablished:
Juvenilecriminalsare sometimessentencedto indeterminateprisontermsratherthan afixedlengthoftime.
(Definition ofindeterminatefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofindeterminate

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We can repeat this argument to construct infinitely many equilibrium paths and, therefore, the original equilibrium is said to beindeterminate.
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The duty of a judge to apply applicable rules would thus beindeterminate-it would obtain in some cases and not in others.
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A speaker selectively focuses on just one of a large (and possiblyindeterminate) number of such factors.
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If these mid-century financial villains are all homemade upstarts, they are not only regularly identified with, but increasingly replaced by, more or lessindeterminateforeigners.
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A steady state in case 2 is unstable orindeterminate.
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One supporting argument is that lineation is asindeterminateand ambiguous as other metrical forms.
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In a monetary economy, depending on fiscal and monetary policies, dynamic trajectories may have determinate prices,indeterminateprices, or no equilibrium.
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Critics might charge that the insertion of a "reasonableness" clause is problematic because it leaves the prescriptions of genetic justice largelyindeterminate.
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This is because hearts with solitary ventricles are extremely rare, and are almost always found in the setting of a ventricular mass exhibitingindeterminatemorphology.
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Secondly, anindeterminatebut small number of internees were not volunteers.
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This assumption ofindeterminatesenses complemented with contextual information is on the ascendant.
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If law isindeterminate, then judges are unconstrained by law in their decision-making.
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Yet this revealing never simply comes to an end or runs off into theindeterminate.
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The purpose of any theory is to explain, and there are three ways in which it can prove inadequate: through beingindeterminate, misleading, or unfalsifiable.
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Gissing's imaginative engagement with the historically and culturallyindeterminatecharacter of the suburbs is matched by autobiographical accounts.
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