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- noun linguistics A
modifier ; a word that modifies another word.
Etymologies
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From Latin dētermināns, present active participle of dēterminō ("fix the limits of something"), from dē + terminō ("bound, limit").
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Adde quod intcrfe - dione radiationum intra Vitreum, dextrafierentfiniftrr* fuperiores inferiores, & e contra, & ita fieret etiam confu - fio, determinans apparentiam fimujUd fitus oppofitos.
Optica philosophia experimentis et ratione a fundamentis constituta, Nicolai ... Nicola Zucchi 1656
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