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Determiner

noun
1.
An argument that is conclusive.  Synonyms: clincher, determining factor.
2.
One of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases.  Synonym: determinative.
3.
A determining or causal element or factor.  Synonyms: causal factor, determinant, determinative, determining factor.






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"Determiner" Quotes from Famous Books



... derivatively and at a later period applied to ACTIONS; it is a gross mistake, therefore, when historians of morals start with questions like, "Why have sympathetic actions been praised?" The noble type of man regards HIMSELF as a determiner of values; he does not require to be approved of; he passes the judgment: "What is injurious to me is injurious in itself;" he knows that it is he himself only who confers honour on things; he is a CREATOR ...
— Beyond Good and Evil • Friedrich Nietzsche

... xviii. 17; adding the following observations: "Dans ce livre, on ne dit pas un mot de la penitence qui afflige le corps. Cependant il est de foi qu'elle est absolument necessaire au salut apres le peche, c'est a l'Eglise de J. C. qu'il appartient de determiner le sens ...
— The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America • John West

... was heterozygous and the male homozygous for sex. Dr. Wilson points out that in the bee, where fertilised eggs develop into females and unfertilised into males, we should have to assume that the X chromosome in the female gamete is a female determiner which meets a recessive male determiner in the X chromosomes of the sperm. When reduction occurs, the X[female] must be eliminated since the reduced egg develops always into a male. But on fertilisation, since ...
— Hormones and Heredity • J. T. Cunningham



Words linked to "Determiner" :   determining factor, clincher, influence, function word, article, statement, cognitive factor, determinative, determine, decisive factor, argument, closed-class word



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