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Indeterminable

Definitions: Indeterminable

Indeterminable

Adjective

1. Not capable of being definitely decided or ascertained.

2. Unable to be determined.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "indeterminable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1690. (references)

 

Synonym: Indeterminable

Synonym: undeterminable (adj). (additional references)
Antonym: determinable (adj). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Indeterminable

English words defined with "indeterminable": indeterminablyunpredictable. (references)
Specialty definitions using "indeterminable": M-. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Indeterminable" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Spanish (indeterminable, undeterminable).

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Non-Fiction Usage: Indeterminable

SubjectTopicQuote

Economic History

Croatia

For example, the number and amount of government guarantees issued by the previous government and line ministries were indeterminable in there were no central procedures to control ministries' spending. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Indeterminable

"Indeterminable" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Indeterminable" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)100%4175,879

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Indeterminable

Language Translations for "indeterminable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

i pazgjidhshëm (inextricable, insoluble), i papërcakueshëm. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏متعذر تحديده, ‏متعذر الجزم فيه. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

неразрешим (baffling, inextricable, insoluble, insolvable, irresolvable, unsolvable), неопределен (ambiguous, amorphous, formless, inconclusive, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indeterminate, indistinct, inexplicit, infinitive, loose, neutral, nondescript, uncertain, undefined, undetermined, unidentified, vague). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

法决定. (various references)

   

Czech

  

nerozborný. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

نامحدود (Indefinite, Infinite, Unlimited, Unqualified, Unrestrained, Wide), غیرقابل تعیین , بی حدوحصر (Limitless, Spaceless). (various references)

   

French

  

indéterminable. (various references)

   

German

  

unbestimmbar (indefinable, intangible, nondescript, nondescriptly). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

απροσδιόριστοσ (indefinable, intangible, undefined, unspecified), απερίγραπτοσ (indefinable, indescribable, nameless). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

לא מו'"ר (indefinite). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

meghatározhatatlan (elusive, indefinable, neutral, nondescript, undefinable, undeterminable, unidentifiable), eldöntetlen (draw, drawn, indeterminate, pending, undecided, undefined). (various references)

   

Manx

  

neuhoiaghagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

indeterminableay

   

Portuguese

  

indeterminável (undeterminable), indestrutível (indefectible). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

indeterminabil. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

неопределимый (indefinable, undeterminable). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

neodrediv (indefinable, indeterminate). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

indeterminable (undeterminable). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

omöjlig att avgöra, obestämbar (indefinable, indeterminate). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kararlaştırılamaz, karara bağlanamayan (indecisive), belirlenemez. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

невизначний (undeterminable). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

không xác định được. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Indeterminable

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-e-e-i-i-l-m-n-n-r-t"

-2 letters: determinable, interminable.

-4 letters: deliberate, derailment, dinnertime, eliminated, endearment, inebriated, interlined, intermedin, remediable, terminable, timberland, timberline.

-5 letters: alimented, alinement, bedlamite, belemnite, breadline, debarment, delimiter, delineate, demential, determine, diablerie, eliminate, emendable, enterable, entrained, inebriant, inebriate, interlaid, interlend, interline, intermale, liberated, libertine, lineament, madeleine, madrilene, mainlined, nemertean, nemertine, netminder, remediate, tailender, triennial.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Indeterminable


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

49 6E 64 65 74 65 72 6D 69 6E 61 62 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

..    -.    -..    .    -    .    .-.    --    ..    -.    .-    -...    .-..    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001001 01101110 01100100 01100101 01110100 01100101 01110010 01101101 01101001 01101110 01100001 01100010 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#73 &#110 &#100 &#101 &#116 &#101 &#114 &#109 &#105 &#110 &#97 &#98 &#108 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0049 006E 0064 0065 0074 0065 0072 006D 0069 006E 0061 0062 006C 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4380707186718479758067687871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Quotations: Non-fiction
5. Usage Frequency
6. Translations: Modern
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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