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noun
1.
the act of coming to a decision or of fixing or settling a purpose.
2.
ascertainment, as after observation or investigation: determination of a ship's latitude.
3.
the information ascertained; solution.
4.
the settlement of a dispute, question, etc., as by authoritative decision.
5.
EXPANDthe decision or settlement arrived at or pronounced.
6.
the quality of being resolute; firmness of purpose.
7.
a fixed purpose or intention: It is my determination to suppress vice.
8.
the fixing or settling of amount, limit, character, etc.: the determination of a child's allowance.
9.
fixed direction or tendency toward some object or end.
10.
Chiefly Law. conclusion or termination.
11.
Embryology. the fixation of the fate of a cell or group of cells, especially before actual morphological or functional differentiation occurs.
12.
COLLAPSELogic.
a.
the act of rendering a notion more precise by the addition of differentiating characteristics.
b.
the definition of a concept in terms of its constituent elements.
Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English (< Anglo-French ) < Latin dēterminātiōn- (stem of dēterminātiō) a boundary, conclusion, equivalent to dētermināt(us) (see determinate) + -iōn- -ion
1350–1400; Middle English (< Anglo-French ) < Latin dēterminātiōn- (stem of dēterminātiō) a boundary, conclusion, equivalent to dētermināt(us) (see determinate) + -iōn- -ion
Related forms
in·ter·de·ter·mi·na·tion, noun
non·de·ter·mi·na·tion, noun
re·de·ter·mi·na·tion, noun
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Determination
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| opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England. |
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Example Sentences
- What is needed is the collective determination to provide water for everyone.
- Not long after, their determination was tested by a lashing winter storm.
- My favorite of the group for the sheer determination on the man's face and the power exerted (and captured) by the animals.
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Word Origin & History
determination
late 14c., "decision, sentence," from Fr. détermination (14c.), from L. determinationem, noun of action from determinare (see determine). As "a bringing to an end" (especilly of a suit at law), late 15c. As "fixed direction toward a goal," from 1650s, originally
EXPANDin physics or anatomy; metaphoric sense "fixation of will" is from 1680s; that of "quality of being resolute" is from 1822.
COLLAPSE
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Medical Dictionary
determination de·ter·mi·na·tion (dĭ-tûr'mə-nā'shən)
n.
A change for the better or for the worse in the course of a disease.
A fixed movement or tendency toward an object or end.
The ascertaining of the quantity, quality, position, or character of something.
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