Determination vs Determinative - What's the difference?
determination | determinative |
The act of determining, or the state of being determined.
Bringing to an end; termination; limit.
Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion.
The quality of mind which reaches definite conclusions; decision of character; resoluteness.
(countable) The state of decision; a judicial decision, or ending of controversy.
(countable) That which is determined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution.
A flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part; as, a determination of blood to the head.
(countable) The act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity, etc.; as, the determination of the ohm or of the wave length of light; the determination of the salt in sea water, or the oxygen in the air.
The act of defining a concept or notion by giving its essential constituents.
The addition of a differentia to a concept or notion, thus limiting its extent; -- the opposite of generalization.
The act of determining the relations of an object, as regards genus and species; the referring of minerals, plants, or animals, to the species to which they belong; classification; as, I am indebted to a friend for the determination of most of these shells.
(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.
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]:
* 2009 July, , Financial Instruments , ISBN 9781905590698, page 617 [http://books.google.com/books?id=nwV-hbTHxeMC&pg=PA617&dq=determinative]:
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As nouns the difference between determination and determinative
is that determination is determination while determinative is (linguistics) an ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts.As an adjective determinative is
determining (gloss) something.determination
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(wikipedia determination)Noun
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* cellular determinationdeterminative
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* ("determinative" on Wikipedia)Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- An entity does not automatically conclude that any observed transaction price is determinative of fair value.