ALL meanings of determinative
de·ter·mi·na·tive
D d - adjective determinative able to or serving to settle or determine; deciding 3
- noun determinative a factor, circumstance, etc, that settles or determines 3
- noun determinative (in a logographic writing system) a logogram that bears a separate meaning, from which compounds and inflected forms are built up 3
- adjective determinative determining or serving to determine 3
- noun determinative a thing or factor that determines 3
- noun determinative Serving to define, qualify, or direct. 1
- adjective determinative serving to determine; determining. 1
- noun determinative something that determines. 1
- noun determinative a graphic symbol used in ideographic writing to denote a semantic class and written next to a word to indicate in what semantic category that word is to be understood, thus at times distinguishing homographs. 1
- noun determinative (linguistics) An ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts. 0
- noun determinative (grammar) A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it. Examples of determinatives include articles (a, the), demonstratives (this, those), cardinal numbers (three, fifty), and indefinite numerals (most, any, each). 0
- adjective determinative Determining (deciding) something. 0