indeterminacy

indeterminate | American Dictionary

indeterminate
adjective
us/ˌɪn·dɪˈtɜr·mə·nət/
not clearly determined or established:
Juvenile criminals are sometimes sentenced to indeterminate prison terms rather than a fixed length of time.

Examples of indeterminate

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We can repeat this argument to construct infinitely many equilibrium paths and, therefore, the original equilibrium is said to be indeterminate.
The duty of a judge to apply applicable rules would thus be indeterminate-it would obtain in some cases and not in others.
A speaker selectively focuses on just one of a large (and possibly indeterminate) number of such factors.
If these mid-century financial villains are all homemade upstarts, they are not only regularly identified with, but increasingly replaced by, more or less indeterminate foreigners.
A steady state in case 2 is unstable or indeterminate.
One supporting argument is that lineation is as indeterminate and ambiguous as other metrical forms.
In a monetary economy, depending on fiscal and monetary policies, dynamic trajectories may have determinate prices, indeterminate prices, or no equilibrium.
Critics might charge that the insertion of a "reasonableness" clause is problematic because it leaves the prescriptions of genetic justice largely indeterminate.
This is because hearts with solitary ventricles are extremely rare, and are almost always found in the setting of a ventricular mass exhibiting indeterminate morphology.
Secondly, an indeterminate but small number of internees were not volunteers.
This assumption of indeterminate senses complemented with contextual information is on the ascendant.
If law is indeterminate, then judges are unconstrained by law in their decision-making.
Yet this revealing never simply comes to an end or runs off into the indeterminate.
The purpose of any theory is to explain, and there are three ways in which it can prove inadequate: through being indeterminate, misleading, or unfalsifiable.
Gissing's imaginative engagement with the historically and culturally indeterminate character of the suburbs is matched by autobiographical accounts.
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