Translate indeterminate | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of indeterminate
adjective
1not exactly known, established, or defined:the carpet is an indeterminate dull shade the date of manufacture is indeterminate (of a judicial sentence) not of a fixed length but dependent on the convicted person’s conduct: the abolition of the indeterminate borstal sentence for young offenders Mathematics (of a quantity) having no definite or definable value. Medicine (of a condition) from which a diagnosis of the underlying cause cannot be made:indeterminate colitis
2 Botany (of a shoot) not having all the axes terminating in a flower bud and so potentially of indefinite length.
