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Determiner

noun

An argument that is conclusive. Synonyms: clincher, determining factor.

One of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases. Synonym: determinative.

A determining or causal element or factor. Synonyms: causal factor, determinant, determinative, determining factor.

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"Determiner" Quotes from Famous Books

... ont le droit de constater, par eux memes ou par leur representants, la necessite de la contribution publique, de la consentir librement, d'en suivre l'emploi, et d'en determiner la qualite, l'assiette, le ...

— The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens • Georg Jellinek

... simplicity of those early ideas,—though it must be said that some students of eugenics have not yet outgrown them. In those days it was thought that every visible character in man (or in any other organism) was represented by some "determiner" in the germ-plasm; that by suitable matings a breeder could rid a stream of germ-plasm of almost any determiner he wished; and that the corresponding unit character would thereupon disappear from the visible make-up of the individual. Was a family reported as showing a taint, for instance, ...

— Applied Eugenics • Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson

Words linked to "Determiner" : function word, causal factor, decisive factor, closed-class word, argument, determinative, cognitive factor, determine, clincher, influence, article, statement