Dictionary Definition
determination
Noun
1 the act of determining the properties of
something [syn: finding]
2 the quality of being determined to do or
achieve something; "his determination showed in his every
movement"; "he is a man of purpose" [syn: purpose]
3 a position or opinion or judgment reached after
consideration; "a decision unfavorable to the opposition"; "his
conclusion took the evidence into account"; "satisfied with the
panel's determination" [syn: decision, conclusion]
4 the act of making up your mind about something;
"the burden of decision was his"; "he drew his conclusions quickly"
[syn: decision,
conclusion]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn
Noun
- The act of determining, or the state of being determined.
- Bringing to an end; termination; limit.
- Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion.
- The quality of mind which reaches definite conclusions; decision of character; resoluteness.
- The state of decision; a judicial decision, or ending of controversy.
- That which is determined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution.
- A flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part; as, a determination of blood to the head.
- The act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity, etc.; as, the determination of the ohm or of the wave length of light; the determination of the salt in sea water, or the oxygen in the air.
- The act of defining a concept or notion by giving its essential constituents.
- The addition of a differentia to a concept or notion, thus limiting its extent; -- the opposite of generalization.
- The act of determining the relations of an object, as regards genus and species; the referring of minerals, plants, or animals, to the species to which they belong; classification; as, I am indebted to a friend for the determination of most of these shells.
Related terms
Translations
act of determining, or the state of being
determined
- Arabic: (ʕazam)
- Czech: určení
- Finnish: päättäväisyys, määrätietoisuus
- German: Bestimmung
Bringing to an end; termination; limit
Direction or tendency to a certain end;
impulsion
- German: Determination
quality of mind which reaches definite
conclusions; decision of character; resoluteness
- German: Bestimmtheit
- Hebrew: נחישות (nekhishut)
state of decision; a judicial decision, or
ending of controversy
- German: Feststellung
That which is determined upon; result of
deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution
flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part
act, process, or result of any accurate
measurement
- German: Bestimmung
act of defining a concept or notion by giving
its essential constituents
- German: Bestimmung
addition of a differentia to a concept or
notion, thus limiting its extent
- German: Unterscheidung
act of determining the relations of an object,
as regards genus and species
- German: Bestimmung
- ttbc French: acharnement
- ttbc Spanish: ahínco
Extensive Definition
Determination may refer to:
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
absolute indication, accomplishment, acid
test, action, aim, allocation, ambition, animus, answer, appetence, appetency, appetite, appraisal, appraisement, approximation, ascertaining, ascertainment, aspiration, assay, assessment, assignment, assize, assizement, assurance, attribution, award, balkiness, bigotry, blank determination,
bounding, bringing to
light, brouillon,
bullheadedness,
burden of proof, calculation, casual
discovery, catching,
certification,
chance discovery, check,
checking, choice, circling-in, circumscribing, circumscription,
clearing up, collation, command, commitment, computation, conation, conatus, conclusion, conclusive
evidence, condemnation, confirmation, consideration, constancy, correction, counsel, cracking, criterion, crucial test,
crucible, damning
evidence, decidedness, decipherment, decision, decisiveness, decoding, decree, dedication, definiteness, definition, delimitation, deliverance, demarcation, demonstration, denomination, denouement, desideration, desideratum, design, designation, desire, detection, determinateness,
determinedness,
determining,
devotion, diagnosis, dictum, disclosure, discovery, discretion, disentanglement,
disposition,
distinguishment,
docimasy, doggedness, dogmatism, doom, earnestness, effect, effort, encincture, end, end result, endeavor, ensuring, espial, essay, establishment, estimate, estimation, evaluation, excavation, exertion, exhumation, explanation, exposure, fanaticism, fancy, feeling out, find, finding, finding out,
finding-out, firmness,
first draft, fixed mind, fixed purpose, fixing, fortitude, free choice, free
will, function,
gauging, grit, guts, hardheadedness, headstrongness, idea, inclination,
inclusion-exclusion, incontrovertible evidence, indisputable
evidence, inflexible will, instrumentation,
intendment, intent, intention, interpretation, intolerance, invention, ironclad proof,
issue, judgement, kiteflying, liking, locating, location, lucky strike,
lust, meaning, measure, measurement, measuring, mensuration, metric system,
mind, motive, mulishness, nisus, obduracy, objective, obstinacy, obstinateness, onus, onus probandi, opinionatedness,
ordeal, order, outcome, overzealousness,
passion, perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, pigheadedness, pinning
down, plan, pleasure, point, precedent, precision, probation, prognosis, project, pronouncement, proof, proposal, prospectus, purpose, purposefulness, quantification, quantization, rating, reason, reassurance, reassurement, recognition, rediscovery, relentlessness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve, resolvedness, resolving, restiveness, result, revelation, riddling, rough draft, rough
sketch, ruling, sake, selection, self-will, sentence, serendipity, seriousness, settlement, settling, sexual desire,
signification,
sincerity,
single-mindedness, solution, solving, sorting out, sounding
out, specification, spotting, standard, steadfastness, stiff neck,
stiff-neckedness, stipulation, strain, strike, striving, strongheadness, struggle, stubbornness, study, substantiation, sulkiness, sullenness, sure sign,
survey, surveying, telemetering, telemetry, tenaciousness, tenacity, termination, test, test case, total commitment,
touchstone, treasure
trove, trial, triangulation, trouvaille, trove, try, uncooperativeness,
uncovering, unearthing, unmistakable
sign, unraveling,
unregenerateness,
unriddling, unscrambling, unspinning, untangling, untwisting, unweaving, upshot, validation, valuation, velleity, verdict, verification, view, volition, will, will power, willfulness, wish, working,
working-out