• (adjective, noun) (British) IPA: /dɪˈtɜːmɪnət/
• (verb) (British) IPA: /dɪˈtɜːmɪneɪt/

determinate (not comparable)

1. Distinct, clearly defined. [from 14th c.]

   • Quantity of words and a determinate number of feet.

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VIII, p. 122,

     […] on account of his responsibility to Norman and Marigold, and on account of his now determinate age, he considered himself ineligible for more dangerous service.

2. Fixed, set, unvarying. [from 16th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts II:

     hym have ye taken by the hondes of unrightewes persones, after he was delivered by the determinat counsell and foreknowledge of God, and have crucified and slayne hym [...].

3. (biology) Of growth: ending once a genetically predetermined structure has formed.
4. Conclusive; decisive; positive.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Acts 2:–23 ↗:

5. (obsolete) Determined or resolved upon.
   • c. 1601–1602, William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or VVhat You VVill”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene i]:

     My determinate voyage.

6. Of determined purpose; resolute.

   • More determinate to do than skillful how to do.

• (limited) indeterminate, nondeterminate
• (biology) indeterminate

• determinacy
• determination
• determine
• deterministic

• German: bestimmt, entschieden, eindeutig
• Spanish: determinado

determinate (plural determinates)

1. (philosophy) A single state of a particular determinable attribute.

determinate (determinates, present participle determinating; past and past participle determinated)

1. (obsolete) To bring to an end; to determine.
   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance)​​, William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene iii]:

     The sly, slow hours shall not determinate / The dateless limit of thy dear exile.