determiner

[dih-tur-muh-ner]

de·ter·min·er

[dih-tur-muh-ner]
noun
1.
a person or thing that determines.
2.
Grammar. a member of a subclass of English limiting adjectival words that usually precede descriptive adjectives and include the articles the, a, and an, and any words that may substitute for them, as your, their, some, and each.

Origin:
1520–30; determine + -er1
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Determiner is always a great word to know.
So is solidus. Does it mean:
a symbol (∼) indicating equivalency or similarity between two values.
a short oblique stroke (/) between two words indicating that whichever is appropriate may be chosen to complete the sense of the text in which they occur:
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determiner (dɪˈtɜːmɪnə)
 
n
1.  a word, such as a number, article, possessive adjective, etc, that determines (limits) the meaning of a noun phrase, e.g. their in `their black cat'
2.  a person or thing that determines

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