Indeterminate /(?)/
In·de·ter·mi·nate
Indeterminate
a.
- Not determinate; not certain or fixed; indefinite; not precise; as, an indeterminate number of years.
Phrases & Compounds
- Indeterminate analysis
- that branch of analysis which has for its object the solution of indeterminate problems.
- Indeterminate coefficients
- coefficients arbitrarily assumed for convenience of calculation, or to facilitate some artifice of analysis. Their values are subsequently determined.
- Indeterminate equation
- an equation in which the unknown quantities admit of an infinite number of values, or sets of values. A group of equations is indeterminate when it contains more unknown quantities than there are equations.
- Indeterminate inflorescence
- a mode of inflorescence in which the flowers all arise from axillary buds, the terminal bud going on to grow and sometimes continuing the stem indefinitely; -- called also acropetal inflorescence, botryose inflorescence, centripetal inflorescence, and indefinite inflorescence.
- Indeterminate problem
- a problem which admits of an infinite number of solutions, or one in which there are fewer imposed conditions than there are unknown or required results.
- Indeterminate quantity
- a quantity which has no fixed value, but which may be varied in accordance with any proposed condition.
- Indeterminate series
- a series whose terms proceed by the powers of an indeterminate quantity, sometimes also with indeterminate exponents, or indeterminate coefficients.