adjective. Able or serving to determine: synonym: decisive.

noun. A determining factor.

Having power to determine, fix, or decide; tending or serving to shape or direct; conclusive.

Of use in ascertaining the species; serving to determine the precise kind of a thing: as, determinative tables in the natural sciences (that is, tables arranged for determining the specific character of minerals, plants, etc., and to assist in assigning them to their species); determinative signs in hieroglyphics; determinative ornaments or structures.

noun. That which determines or indicates the character or quality of something else.

noun. In grammar, a determinative or demonstrative word.

adjective. Having power to determine; limiting; shaping; directing; conclusive.

adjective. tables presenting the specific character of minerals, plants, etc., to assist in determining the species to which a specimen belongs.

noun. That which serves to determine.

noun. An ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts.

adjective. Determining (deciding) something.

adjective. having the power or quality of deciding

noun. a determining or causal element or factor

noun. one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases

"Several factors lead Breyer to see the Ten Commandments tablets on the grounds of the Texas State Capitol as secular, but the one he calls "determinative" is that nobody has publicly complained about it before."

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