determinative
Meanings
noun
- An ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts.
- A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.
adj
- That determines something.
- Sufficient to decide something (such as a question of fact or of law).
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Etymology
From Middle French déterminatif. Equivalent to determine + -ative.
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