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Accessible vs Determinative - What's the difference?

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Accessible is a related term of determinative.


As adjectives the difference between accessible and determinative

is that accessible is easy of access or approach; approachable while determinative is determining (gloss) something.

As a noun determinative is

(linguistics) an ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts.

accessible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Easy of access or approach; approachable.
    • an accessible town or mountain
  • Easy to get along with.
  • Open to the influence of.
  • * Minds accessible to reason. - (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
  • Obtainable; to be got at.
  • * The best information ... at present accessible . - (Thomas Babington Macaulay)
  • (art, literature) Easily understood.
  • Capable of being used or seen.

    • Usage notes

    * (open to influence) Followed by to .

    Antonyms

    * inaccessible

    Derived terms

    * accessibility * accessibly

    determinative

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (linguistics) An ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts.
  • (grammar) A word that typically functions as a determiner in a noun phrase; many also have other functions.determiner in Huddleston & Pullum, 2002. CUP.

    • Synonyms

    (ideogram) taxogram

    Related terms

    * determiner

    See also

    * article * demonstrative

    External links

    * ("determinative" on Wikipedia)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Determining (gloss) something.
  • * 1905 January 21, Ch. Kent, opinion, New York Foundling Hospital ''v.'' Gatti'', Arizona [Territorial] Supreme Court, as reported in, 1907, ''The Lawyers Reports Annotated , new series, volume 7, page 313 [http://books.google.com/books?id=N6m2AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA313&dq=determinative]:
    • This proceeding, though not presenting questions difficult of determination, or points of law that are novel, is unusual in many of its features, and is important as determinative of the disposition and welfare of a number of little children, ignorant of the contest that is being carried on in regard to them.
  • * 2009 July, , Financial Instruments , ISBN 9781905590698, page 617 [http://books.google.com/books?id=nwV-hbTHxeMC&pg=PA617&dq=determinative]:
    • An entity does not automatically conclude that any observed transaction price is determinative of fair value.

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