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Indeterminate vs Fuzzy - What's the difference?

indeterminate | fuzzy |

As adjectives the difference between indeterminate and fuzzy

is that indeterminate is not accurately determined or determinable while fuzzy is covered with fuzz or a large number of tiny loose fibres like a carpet or many stuffed animals mentioned in the popular nursery rhyme fuzzy wuzzy was a bear .

As a noun fuzzy is

an individual flake of fuzzies.

indeterminate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not accurately determined or determinable.
  • Imprecise or vague.
  • (biology) Of growth: with no genetically defined end, and thus theoretically limitless.
  • (botany) Of inflorescences: not topped with some form of terminal bud.
  • intersex

    • Synonyms

    * indeterminant

    Antonyms

    * determinate

    fuzzy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Covered with fuzz or a large number of tiny loose fibres like a carpet or many stuffed animals. Mentioned in the popular nursery rhyme Fuzzy wuzzy was a bear.
  • Vague or imprecise.
    • My recollection of that event is fuzzy .
  • Not clear; unfocused.
    • I finally threw out a large stack of fuzzy photos.

    Derived terms

    * fuzzily * fuzziness * fuzzy logic * fuzzy mathematics * fuzzy set * fuzzy control * fuzzy concept * fuzzy relation

    Noun

    (fuzzies)
  • an individual flake of fuzzies
    • You've got a fuzzy on your coat.