• IPA: /dɪˈsaɪdɪŋ/

deciding (uncountable)

1. The act of making a decision.

deciding (not comparable)

1. Resulting, having resulted, or having the potential to result in a decision or conclusion.

   The cost turned out to be the deciding factor in our final choice.

   • 2018 June 4, Adam Liptak, “In Narrow Decision, Supreme Court Sides With Baker Who Turned Away Gay Couple”, in The New York Times‎^{[https://web.archive.org/web/20230915191642/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/us/politics/supreme-court-sides-with-baker-who-turned-away-gay-couple.html]}, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN ↗, →OCLC ↗, archived from the original ↗ on 2023-09-15:

     Justice [Anthony] Kennedy often casts the deciding vote in closely divided cases on major social issues.

1. Present participle and gerund of decide