INDETERMINATE

Indeterminate

In mathematics, and particularly in formal algebra, an indeterminate is a symbol that is treated as a variable, but does not stand for anything else but itself and is used as a placeholder in objects such as polynomials, formal power series. In particular it does not designate a constant or a parameter of the problem, it is not an unknown that could be solved for, and it is not a variable designating a function argument or being summed or integrated over; it is not any type of bound variable.

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indeterminate

Adjective

  1. Not accurately determined or determinable.
  2. Imprecise or vague.
  3. Of growth: with no genetically defined end, and thus theoretically limitless.
  4. Of inflorescences: not topped with some form of terminal bud.
  5. intersex


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