Definite is an English word with synonyms like certain or defined. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Definite meaning
- Having distinct limits.
- Free from any doubt.
- Determined; resolved; decided.
Synonyms of Definite
Using Definite
- The main meaning on this page is: Having distinct limits. | Free from any doubt. | Determined; resolved; decided.
- Useful related words include: certain, defined, distinct, expressed.
- In the example corpus, definite often appears in combinations such as: is definite, was definite, no definite.
Context around Definite
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 11 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Definite
- In this selection, "definite" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, negative, positive, semi, article, integrals and articles stand out and add context to how "definite" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include definite article a, and arbëri definite arbëria by and definite article. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "definite" sits close to words such as darren, forged and jenny, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with definite
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Definite articles Definite articles typically arise from demonstratives meaning that. (10 words)
Similar statements can be made for negative definite and semi-definite matrices. (12 words)
While the country was called Arbëni, definite : Arbënia and Arbëri, definite: Arbëria by Albanians. (14 words)
Strong and weak proper names Because they are used to refer to an individual entity, proper names are, by their nature, definite; so a definite article would be redundant, and personal names (like John) are used without an article or other determiner. (42 words)
When Σ is positive-definite, the Cholesky decomposition is typically used, and the extended form of this decomposition can always be used (as the covariance matrix may be only positive semi-definite) in both cases a suitable matrix A is obtained. (41 words)
The negative definite, positive semi-definite, and negative semi-definite matrices are defined in the same way, except that 0's are allowed, i.e. the expression or is required to be always negative, non-negative, and non-positive, respectively. (40 words)
Example sentences (20)
The negative definite, positive semi-definite, and negative semi-definite matrices are defined in the same way, except that 0's are allowed, i.e. the expression or is required to be always negative, non-negative, and non-positive, respectively.
But even amid their very definite Premier League stabilisation since 2015, it is hard to miss a definite trend.
Because it is usually easier to compute an antiderivative than to apply the definition of a definite integral, the fundamental theorem of calculus provides a practical way of computing definite integrals.
Definite article A definite article indicates that its noun is a particular one which is identifiable to the listener.
Definite article * A few 'institutional' nouns take no definite article when a certain role is implied: for example, at sea (as a sailor), in prison (as a convict), and at/in college (for students).
Definite articles Definite articles typically arise from demonstratives meaning that.
Definite nouns include all proper nouns, all nouns in "construct state" and all nouns which are prefixed by the definite article /al-/.
Indefinite A Hermitian matrix which is neither positive definite, negative definite, positive-semidefinite, nor negative-semidefinite is called indefinite.
It moves in an unreal world without definite locality or definite creatures and is filled with the marvelous.
Lambdin 1983:2 pə-roːme 'the man' tə-ciɟ 'the hand' The definite and indefinite articles also indicate number ; however, only definite articles mark gender.
Negative-definite, semidefinite and indefinite matrices A Hermitian matrix is negative-definite, negative-semidefinite, or positive-semidefinite if and only if all of its eigenvalues are negative, non-positive, or non-negative, respectively.
Originally both types of adjectives could be used by themselves, but already by Proto-Germanic times a pattern evolved whereby definite adjectives had to be accompanied by a determiner with definite semantics (e.
QED Second Mean Value Theorem for Definite Integrals There are various slightly different theorems called the second mean value theorem for definite integrals.
Similar statements can be made for negative definite and semi-definite matrices.
Strong and weak proper names Because they are used to refer to an individual entity, proper names are, by their nature, definite; so a definite article would be redundant, and personal names (like John) are used without an article or other determiner.
The definite article sē main and its various forms could serve both as a definite article ("the") and a demonstrative adjective ("that").
The symbol Cℓ n (R) means either Cℓ n,0 (R) or Cℓ 0,n (R) depending on whether the author prefers positive definite or negative definite spaces.
This quadratic function is strictly convex when M is positive definite, and hence has a unique finite global minimum, if and only if M is positive definite.
When Σ is positive-definite, the Cholesky decomposition is typically used, and the extended form of this decomposition can always be used (as the covariance matrix may be only positive semi-definite) in both cases a suitable matrix A is obtained.
While the country was called Arbëni, definite : Arbënia and Arbëri, definite: Arbëria by Albanians.
Phrases with definite
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with definite
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- is definite 24×
- was definite 14×
- no definite 11×
- definite article 9×
- the definite 9×
- have definite 9×
- are definite 7×
- definite plus 7×
- has definite 6×
- and definite 6×