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de•ter•mi•na•tive



Pronunciation: (di-tûr'mu-nā"tiv, -nu-tiv), [key]
—adj.
serving to determine; determining.

—n.
1. something that determines.
2. 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.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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