Indefinite vs Determiner - What's the difference?
indefinite | determiner |
Without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite.
Vague or unclear.
Undecided or uncertain.
(mathematics) An integral without specified limits.
(grammar) A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it. Examples of determiners include articles (a, the), demonstratives (this, those), cardinal numbers (three, fifty), and indefinite numerals (most, any, each).
(grammar) A dependent function in a noun phrase marking the NP as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.
Something that determines, or helps someone to determine, something else.
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As a adjective indefinite
is without limit; forever, or until further notice; not definite.As a noun determiner is
(grammar) a member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it examples of determiners include articles (a, the), demonstratives (this, those), cardinal numbers (three, fifty), and indefinite numerals (most, any, each).indefinite
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Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* indefinitely * indefinite article * indefinitenessdeterminer
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Noun
(en noun)- The "steel-yards" and "measures" were the only determiners of weight and quantity — as the hour-glass and sun dial were of time — possessed at first (so far as appears) by the passengers of the Pilgrim ship,