From Middle French dispositif and its source, Latin dispositus.

• (British) IPA: /dɪˈspɒzɪtɪv/

dispositive

1. Intending to or resulting in or capable of disposition (disposing of or settling a matter).

   Coordinate term: determinative

   We were unable to produce any dispositive evidence to support our case.

2. (obsolete) By natural disposition, having such an inclination.
3. (Euro-English or NNSE) Being a statutory provision not mandatory to the parties, as in ius dispositivum.

   Antonyms: cogent

dispositive (plural dispositives)

1. Alternative form of dispositif
   • 2010, François Albéra, Maria Tortajada, Cinema Beyond Film: Media Epistemology in the Modern Era, page 35:

     Apollinaire thus used some of the characteristics of the cinematographic and phonographic dispositives and their variables related to viewing or listening apparatuses that preceded or are contemporary to the cinema.

   • 2014, Jason Thompson, The Game Culture Reader, page 69:

     The scene of jumping on an invisible bridge is then to be seen as a discourse fragment that builds a discourse strand together with other elements (e.g., in the context of other jump'n'runs) that lead into a shared discourse that itself can be integrated into an elementary discourse or a dispositive (cf. Jäger 2004, 117). In the framework of a discourse analysis, Lara Croft's death jump would not be conceived as a unique moment or narrative.