adjective. undefined

adjective. Not precisely determined, determinable, or established.

adjective. Not precisely fixed, as to extent, size, nature, or number.

adjective. Lacking clarity or precision, as in meaning; vague.

adjective. Not fixed or known in advance.

adjective. Not leading up to a definite result or ending.

adjective. Not terminating in a flower and continuing to grow at the apex.

adjective. Having more than one variable and an infinite number of solutions, such as the equation 5x² + 3y = 10.

Not determinate; not settled or fixed; not definite; uncertain; not precise; not exclusively possessing either of a pair of contradictory attributes.

adjective. Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not precise.

adjective. that branch of analysis which has for its object the solution of indeterminate problems.

adjective. coefficients arbitrarily assumed for convenience of calculation, or to facilitate some artifice of analysis. Their values are subsequently determined.

adjective. an equation in which the unknown quantities admit of an infinite number of values, or sets of values. A group of equations is indeterminate when it contains more unknown quantities than there are equations.

adjective. a mode of inflorescence in which the flowers all arise from axillary buds, the terminal bud going on to grow and sometimes continuing the stem indefinitely; -- called also acropetal inflorescence, botryose inflorescence, centripetal inflorescence, and indefinite inflorescence.

adjective. a problem which admits of an infinite number of solutions, or one in which there are fewer imposed conditions than there are unknown or required results.

adjective. a quantity which has no fixed value, but which may be varied in accordance with any proposed condition.

adjective. a series whose terms proceed by the powers of an indeterminate quantity, sometimes also with indeterminate exponents, or indeterminate coefficients.

adjective. Not accurately determined or determinable.

adjective. Imprecise or vague.

adjective. Of growth: with no genetically defined end, and thus theoretically limitless.

adjective. Of inflorescences: not topped with some form of terminal bud.

adjective. not capable of being determined

adjective. not leading to a definite ending or result

adjective. of uncertain or ambiguous nature

adjective. having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex

adjective. not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance

"[And this means that] The accord between imagination as free and understanding as indeterminate is therefore not merely assumed: it is in a sense animated, enlivened, engendered by the interest of the beautiful (KCP 55)."

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