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Determinative meaning
An ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts. | A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.
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Example sentences (19)
There’s no determinative answer to this question.
But given the willingness of elite colleges to cover their tracks—claiming that race was only ever a positive factor, that race was never determinative, and denying the use of racial quotas—they have long lost the benefit of the doubt.
Once implemented, we’d reduce the controversy over any new nomination since adding one justice to the court will not be perceived as outcome determinative.
Hyron’s embroidered linens take “non-determinative forms” that “move away” from those earlier times.
Additionally, this sign was used as a determinative for divine names.
A second version of the original was also written with the throne seat and the bread loaf, but ended with an egg symbol (Gardiner sign H8) which was normally read "set", but here it was used as a determinative to promote the correct reading.
Causality emerges from the interaction, actions and nature of things and people, determinative principles such as karma or God are unnecessary.
Crystal Data, Determinative Tables, ACA Monograph No. 5, American Crystallographic Association, 1963 These space groups are truly chiral (they each belong to the 11 enantiomorphous pairs).
For Lacan, the determinative dimension of human experience is neither the self (as in ego psychology) nor relations with others (as in object relations theory), but language.
Instead, about 90% of Chinese characters are compounds of a determinative (called a ' radical '), which may not exist independently, and a phonetic complement indicates the approximant pronunciation of the morpheme.
Isis' name was originally written with the signs of a throne seat (Gardiner sign Q1, pronounced "as" or "is"), a bread loaf (Gardiner sign X1, pronounced "t" or "tj") and with an unpronounced determinative of a sitting woman.
So, they say, it only appears that things proceed in a merely probabilistically determinative way.
The committee also found that the existence of states was a question of fact, while the recognition by other states was purely declaratory and not a determinative factor of statehood.
The determinative of the plural is a shortcut to signal three occurrences of the word, that is to say, its plural (since the Egyptian language had a dual, sometimes indicated by two strokes).
The determinative was not read as a phonetic constituent, but facilitated understanding by differentiating the word from its homophones.
The hypothesis of linguistic determinism is now generally agreed to be false.sfn Linguistic influence This is the weaker form, proposing that language provides constraints in some areas of cognition, but that it is by no means determinative.
The third hieroglyph is a determinative: it is an ideogram for verbs of motion that gives the reader an idea of the meaning of the word.
They argue that the course of the universe is absolutely determined, but that humans are screened from knowledge of the determinative factors.
Zunz himself was temperamentally inclined to assign a determinative potency to sentiment, this explaining his tender reverence for ceremonial usages.