Indeterminate
[,ɪndɪ'tɜːmɪnət] or ['ɪndɪ'tɝmənət]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) not leading to a definite ending or result; 'an indeterminate campaign' .
(adj.) not capable of being determined; 'the indeterminate number of plant species in the jungle' .
(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' .
(adj.) having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex; 'an indeterminate stem' .
(adj.) of uncertain or ambiguous nature; 'the equivocal (or indeterminate) objects painted by surrealists' .
編輯:斯坦利--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not precise; as, an indeterminate number of years.
乔治錄入
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Indefinite, unfixed, uncertain, not settled, not precise.
克利福德整理
同義詞及反義詞：
[See DETERMINATE]
校對:塔玛拉
例句/造句/用法:
- Possibly they pronounced their consonants very hard and had rather indeterminate vowels, as is said to be still the case with tribes of South Arabia. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- This implies that the situation as it stands is, either in fact or to us, incomplete and hence indeterminate. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
校對:塔玛拉