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PRONUNCIATION OF DETERMINACY

determinacy  [dɪˈtɜːmɪnəsɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DETERMINACY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Determinacy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DETERMINACY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Determinacy

In set theory, a branch of mathematics, determinacy is the study of under what circumstances one or the other player of a game must have a winning strategy, and the consequences of the existence of such strategies.

Definition of determinacy in the English dictionary

The definition of determinacy in the dictionary is the quality of being defined or fixed. Other definition of determinacy is the condition of being predicted or deduced.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DETERMINACY


athanasy
əˈθænəsɪ
effeminacy
ɪˈfɛmɪnəsɪ
euthanasy
juːˈθænəsɪ
feminacy
ˈfɛmɪnəsɪ
geognosy
dʒɪˈɒɡnəsɪ
importunacy
ɪmˈpɔːtjʊnəsɪ
indeterminacy
ˌɪndɪˈtɜːmɪnəsɪ
inordinacy
ɪnˈɔːdɪnəsɪ
lunacy
ˈluːnəsɪ
obstinacy
ˈɒbstɪnəsɪ
pharmacognosy
ˌfɑːməˈkɒɡnəsɪ
Varanasi
vəˈrɑːnəsɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DETERMINACY

determinability
determinable
determinably
determinant
determinantal
determinate
determinately
determinateness
determination
determinative
determinatively
determinativeness
determinator
determine
determined
determinedly
determinedness
determiner
determining
determinism

WORDS THAT END LIKE DETERMINACY

adequacy
advocacy
bureaucracy
conspiracy
delicacy
democracy
diplomacy
efficacy
fallacy
intimacy
lacy
legacy
legitimacy
literacy
pharmacy
piracy
privacy
racy
supremacy
Tracy

Synonyms and antonyms of determinacy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «determinacy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DETERMINACY

Find out the translation of determinacy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of determinacy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «determinacy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

确定性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

determinación
570 millions of speakers

English

determinacy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

determinacy
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الحتمية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

определенность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

determinacy
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

determinacy
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

déterminisme
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketetapan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Bestimmt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

決定性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

determinacy
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Determinasi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tính xác định
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

துணிதற்றகவு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निर्धारकपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

belirlilik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

determinatezza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

determinacy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

визначеність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

determinismului
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αοριστία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bepaaldheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

determinacy
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

determinacy
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of determinacy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DETERMINACY»

The term «determinacy» is regularly used and occupies the 103.579 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «DETERMINACY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about determinacy

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DETERMINACY»

Discover the use of determinacy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to determinacy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Law, Language, and Legal Determinacy
The book argues that the major re-thinking of the common and `common sense' views about law that have been proposed by various recent legal theorists are unnecessary.
Brian Bix, 1995
2
The Determinacy of Long Games
Review text: "There is an excellent extensive Introduction presenting a view of the theory that can be profitable for a non-specialist as well."(ap) in: EMS-Newsletter 3/2007.
Itay Neeman, 2004
3
The Axiom of Determinacy, Forcing Axioms, and the ...
This is the revised and updated second edition of a well-established research monograph on the axiom of determinacy, written by an expert in the field.
W. Hugh Woodin, 2010
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Encyclopedia of Parallel Computing
Discussion Introduction This entry discusses the concept of determinacy in the context of parallel programming. The examples and classification of different kinds of determinacy are adopted from Emrath and Padua [, Sect. ]. The discussion ...
David Padua, 2011
5
Logic Programming: 22nd International Conference, ICLP 2006, ...
Detecting Determinacy in Prolog Programs Andy King1, Lunjin Lu2, and Samir Genaim3 1 University of Kent, Canterbury, CT2 7NF, UK 2 Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309, USA 3 Universidad Polit ́ecnica de Madrid, Spain Abstract.
Sandro Etalle, Miroslav Truszczynski, 2006
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Reason and Justice
Furthermore, because the theory of determinacy turns out to consist in the specification of self-determination, one could even say that its development of categories attains self-justification by establishing self-determination to be the very "logic" ...
Richard Dien Winfield, 1988
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Good and Evil: Interpreting a Human Condition
From the agent's perspective, determinacy is the agent's own I-as identity. Determinacy's relation to transcendence is neither that of an external tyrant nor a dispensable contingency. It rather supplies transcendence with specific situations of ...
Edward Farley
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Philosophy without Foundations: Rethinking Hegel
But again, if no determinacy is presupposed as determinate — that is, if we do not do what the Phenomenology as negative methodology demands that we do not do — where and what is the determinacy of the determining side of this relation, ...
William Maker, 1994
9
The Higher Infinite: Large Cardinals in Set Theory from ...
As a fitting conclusion to both this chapter and volume, this section provides a panoramic survey of the crowning achievements concerning the relative consistency of determinacy hypotheses. After setting out the basics of what came to serve ...
Akihiro Kanamori, 2008
10
Freedom and Modernity
The commodity has excluded the externality of its opposition to other commodities, for now its appearance as a magnitude of use-value and value has nothing to do with the particular determinacy of the other commodity exchanged with it.
Richard Dien Winfield, 1991

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DETERMINACY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term determinacy is used in the context of the following news items.
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Share “Shift away from indeterminate sentencing...”
In a proposal, the New York State Permanent Commission on Sentencing recommended the state legislature implement “full determinacy” in ... «NewsOK.com, Jun 15»
2
Shift away from indeterminate sentencing would benefit families as …
In a proposal, the New York State Permanent Commission on Sentencing recommended the state legislature implement “full determinacy” in ... «Connectstatesboro, Jun 15»
3
Theater trial blog: Day 37
... the number of times Woodcock has testified as a qualified expert – only one of which before today was for criminal determinacy of insanity. «9NEWS.com, Jun 15»
4
Proposal to revamp New York state prison will save money and help …
... on Sentencing recommended the state legislature implement “full determinacy” in place of the current system of "indeterminate" sentencing. «Deseret News, Jun 15»
5
Homeless in Vancouver: Hockey and feng shui explained
... entirely Western invention and as such is built around modern rationalist ideas of relativity rather than older mystical notions of determinacy. «Straight.com, Jun 15»
6
Yanis Varoufakis: Conversation with John Nash Jr. on 'Ideal Money'
... judging by your comments, that your responses of Keynesian views on money are underpinned by a strong principle of rational determinacy; ... «International Policy Digest, Jun 15»
7
Teens share life influences
That's why I find her such a big influence in my life because she has showed me that anything is possible as long as you have the determinacy ... «Valley morning Star, Apr 15»
8
SAARC, South Asia And Imperative Beyond Tired Rhetoric
And this too is particularly due to the bureaucratic over-determinacy. There were several occasions when the SAARC Cultural Centre ... «Mainstream, Mar 15»
9
Connecting the Q in LGBTQ to the Bible's 'Q' Source
The Q source calls into question the determinacy, the ability to know once and for all, the origins of Matthew's and Luke's gospels. Yet, the Bible ... «Patheos, Mar 15»
10
Review: 'The World Before Us' by Aislinn Hunter
However, there is something a bit disingenuous about the determination to dodge determinacy, which verges itself on a kind of naivete. «Chicago Tribune, Mar 15»

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