determinacyn.
The quality of being determinate; determinateness, definiteness.
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1873 A. J. Ellis tr. H. L. F. Helmholtz in E. Atkinson et al. tr. H. L. F. von Helmholtz Pop. Lect. Sci. Subj. 80 Yet the ear solves its problem with the greatest exactness, certainty, and determinacy.
1953 C. E. Bazell Ling. Form 108 It is the fact that different postulates tend to lead to similar solutions which guarantees the relative determinacy of phonemic as opposed to componential analysis.
1958 Listener 18 Dec. 1019/2 The determinacy which exists in events where large numbers of atoms are involved.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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