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  • adjective not accurately determined or determinable
  • adjective imprecise or vague
  • noun mathematics A variable with no value assigned to it; for example the variables in a polynomial.

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Examples

  • And in the 1960s then, as a member of the California Women's Board of Terms and Parole, when California had what was called the indeterminant sentence law, I actually sentenced women who committed abortions to prison terms.

    CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2005 2005

  • And in the 1960s then, as a member of the California Women's Board of Terms and Parole, when California had what was called the indeterminant sentence law, I actually sentenced women who committed abortions to prison terms.

    Front page feed 2009

  • Patients were divided in four categories: Crohn's disease (CD), ulcerative colitis (UC), indeterminant colitis (IC) and microscopic colitis (MC).

    IBD clinical studies: quality of life 2010

  • Or band/wind ensemble music: the entire avant garde was basically shut out by the wind ensemble establishment; there are simply no uptown serial bebop band pieces, no indeterminant band pieces, and no classical minimalist band pieces, but plenty of new music was commissioned, written, published and performed during this period.

    They put you down, they say I'm wrong Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • It's the sleaziest thing in the world to tell people something and then, an indeterminant amount of time later tell them you've changed your mind and you're going to do it.

    Top Hillary Adviser: Richardson Privately Said Obama Is Unelectable 2009

  • It's the sleaziest thing in the world to tell people something and then, an indeterminant amount of time later tell them you've changed your mind and you're going to do it.

    Top Hillary Adviser: Richardson Privately Said Obama Is Unelectable 2009

  • The union acts as a middleman which takes an indeterminant cut of the profits that the employee could've successfully done had he went to management directly and threatened to quit.

    Union Disillusion: Journalists vs. Economists, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • These deaths are not just abstract casualties, they are our flesh and blood relatives and friends who have been sacrificed for some indeterminant cause that has never been coherently articulated.

    Richard Belzer: Only?????? 2008

  • Simon, no doubt an indeterminant portion of the re-enlistment rate is due to certain troops being dedicated to the mission.

    Obama and the war. Ann Althouse 2007

  • Often the signals as to the health of the market are ambiguous - are the data points in question indicative of the market's development and health or more random and indeterminant?

    Isolating Causality: Bad Market or Bad Company Will Price 2007

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