- indeterminacy
- noun Date: 1649 the quality or state of being indeterminate
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Indeterminacy — may refer to: * Indeterminacy in computation (disambiguation) * The indeterminacy problem in history and sociology * aleatoric music and indeterminacy in music. * Statically indeterminate *Indeterminacy (literature) a literary termIn law: *… … Wikipedia
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indeterminacy — [in΄dē tʉr′mi nə sē, in΄ditʉr′mi nə sē] n. the state or quality of being indeterminate … English World dictionary
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indeterminacy — indeterminate ► ADJECTIVE 1) not exactly known, established, or defined. 2) Mathematics (of a quantity) having no definite or definable value. DERIVATIVES indeterminacy noun indeterminately adverb … English terms dictionary
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