Definition of Determinative. Meaning of Determinative. Synonyms of Determinative

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Definition of Determinative

Determinative
Determinative De*ter"mi*na*tive, n. That which serves to determine. Explanatory determinatives . . . were placed after words phonetically expressed, in order to serve as an aid to the reader in determining the meaning. --I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

Meaning of Determinative from wikipedia

- 90%[citation needed] of Chinese characters are determinative-phonetic compounds; the phonetic element and the determinative (called a radical) are combined to form...
- Determine (April 7, 1951 – September 27, 1972) was an American Thoroughbred race horse. In a racing career which lasted from 1953 through 1955, the California-trained...
- reading), as a logogram, or as an ideogram (semagram; "determinative") (semantic reading). The determinative was not read as a phonetic constituent, but facilitated...
- Look up determinable, determinables, determinably, or indeterminable in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Determinable may refer to: Fee simple, an estate...
- "Mansions" (positions of the Moon) within the White Tiger. The names and determinative stars are: Byakkotai "The Chinese Sky". International Dunhuang Project...
- Manual of Determinative Bacteriology, 8th ed., Williams & Wilkins. Baltimore. Holt, John G. (eds., 1994). Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology...
- Possessive determiners are determiners which express possession. Some traditional grammars of English refer to them as possessive adjectives, though they...
- characteristically performed by determiners is known as the determinative function (see § Terminology). A determinative combines with a noun (or, more formally, a nominal;...
- often approximately determined by the slowest step, known as the rate-determining step (RDS or RD-step or r/d step) or rate-limiting step. For a given...
- instead employ the throw stick (the determinative for "foreign") plus a sitting man and woman (the determinative for "people") over three vertical lines...