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de•ter•min•er
Pronunciation: (di-tûr'mu-nur), [key]—
n.
1. a person or thing that determines.
2. Gram.a member of a subclass of English limiting adjectival words that usually precede descriptive adjectives and include the articles
the, a, and
an, and any words that may substitute for them, as
your, their, some, and
each.Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.