determine

Examples of determinative

determinative
There are also appendices containing determinative tables for handspecimen identification, determinative tables for optical mineralogy and a glossary.
Statements of various legislators or bill sponsors might contribute to the evidence of context, but are not determinative.
The determinative function now became the case's primary and indeed only function, cancelling the old semantic value of the genitive case.
Most significantly, however, example (16c) shows that numerical once can be determined by the determinative every.
Past once would seem therefore to be best considered as a further, somewhat specialized, use of the compound determinative with a singulative determinative component.
On the weakest version, legislative intention is entailed by-instead of determinative of-the application-meaning of the statute.
The question is whether all these items having the determinative function formed a category of determiner.
Yasin was fully aware of the potency of mysticism because it had been a determinative experience in his life.
Such adnominal genitives had the determinative function and tended to be preposed.
Instead, if actions can be accounted for by other reasonable explanations, then they needn't be determinative.
For the plural nature of value, in many settings at least, deprives it of the capacity to be determinative of choice.
Biological observations may not be determinative, but they have the potential to fundamentally reframe the inquiry.
These, we claim, are primarily compound determinatives, analogous in many respects to expressions like someone and somewhere.
These two constraints, however, are too weak in themselves to make precedents generally determinative.
These analyses cannot account for the exclusion of specifically pre-nominal adjectival forms from the compound determinative construction.
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