determiner
[dih-tur-muh-ner]
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noun
a person or thing that determines.
Grammar. a member of a subclass of English limiting adjectival words that usually precede descriptive adjectives and include the articles the, a, and an, and any words that may substitute for them, as your, their, some, and each.
Origin of determiner
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Historical Examples of determiner
He felt the adequacy of this life as a determiner of the eternal destiny of all men.
India, Its Life and ThoughtJohn P. Jones
He appears also to have confused the idea of a standard of value with that of a determiner of value.
Honest MoneyArthur Isaac Fonda
That means that there is a determiner for it which is grouped with other determiners in one of the chromosomes.
PhysiologyErnest G. Martin
That is, the determiner for red is absent from the white variety.
Being Well-BornMichael F. Guyer
Then there must be a determiner, the expression of which was mathematical ability.
Applied EugenicsPaul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson
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