determiner
noun
a person or thing that determines.
determiners
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pluralof determiner.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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"Supermarket buyers are some of the most powerful determiners of national diet."
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2016
Their impact is less significant in many developed countries, but they are important determiners of mortality in developing countries.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 25, 2013
Within the nucleus, the chromosomes mysteriously move and divide, ranging themselves in age- old patterns that will serve to distribute the determiners of heredity, the genes, to the daughter cells.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
Other common determiners include articles, as in the cat and this boy; quantifiers, as in some nights and all people; and numbers, as in sixteen tons.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
Although innumerable permutations and combinations of these may be made which find new expression outwardly, this is obviously not creating determiners of new unit-characters in the germ-plasm.
From Being Well-Born An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. Guyer
