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determiner

[ dih-tur-muh-ner ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

a person or thing that determines.
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.

determiner

/ dɪˈtɜːmɪnə /

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'
a person or thing that determines

First recorded in 1520–30; determine + -er ¹

It has become one of the most influential, if underappreciated, determiners of climate policy in the world.

That means that there is a determiner for it which is grouped with other determiners in one of the chromosomes.

Suppose the determiner of a certain character (violet colour of flower in the bean) is located in a chromosome A of this species.

Yahwe is also the determiner of destiny, but he is a rational power behind events.

In a pure variety like the black Andalusians, all the germ cells of each fowl are alike in having this determiner for black color.

Blue eyes are due to the absence of a brown pigment determiner, et cetera.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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