Word Finder - determination

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The act of determining, or the state of being determined.

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Through sheer determination, we managed to escape from the tornado.

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Bringing to an end; termination; limit.

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Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion.

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The quality of mind which reaches definite conclusions; decision of character; resoluteness.

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The state of decision; a judicial decision, or ending of controversy.

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That which is determined upon; result of deliberation; purpose; conclusion formed; fixed resolution.

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A flow, rush, or tendency to a particular part

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a determination of blood to the head

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The act, process, or result of any accurate measurement, as of length, volume, weight, intensity, etc.

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the determination of the level of salt in sea water

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The act of defining a concept or notion by giving its essential constituents.

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The addition of a distinguishing feature to a concept or notion, thus limiting its extent; -- the opposite of generalization.

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The act of determining the relations of an object, such as genus and species; the referring of minerals, plants, or animals, to the species to which they belong; classification

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I am indebted to a friend for the determination of most of these shells.

Determination was her motivation to stand up to the bully.

A familiar look of determination was on her upturned face.

She left the room, sniffing, but with determination in her stride.

She met his gaze with as much determination as she could muster.

We'll get through this — with faith and determination, not magic.

Glowing with the heat and from running, he felt at that moment more strongly than ever the sense of youth, animation, and determination that had come on him when he ran to save the child.

She rubbed her neck, sensing the evil and determination in his tone.

She had the impression of extreme intelligence and extreme determination, a combination that awed and intimidated her.

She met his commanding stare with determination.

In conformity with this determination the various state legislatures enacted new laws or amended the existing laws to cope with the difficulty; these remained until they were in effect superseded by Commonwealth legislation.

Perhaps. Though I will say, I haven't yet made my final determination.  He has a test he must pass.

The determination in Harmony's voice left him no doubt she'd do it.

And, if he found out she was meant to be his mate, he'd pursue her with the same wild determination he pursued Others.

His determination to maintain autocracy was officially proclaimed a few days after his accession.

Arrows continued to fall, and he kicked the horse on in determination, focusing hard on the road ahead of them.

He now resolved to try the experiment of applying photography to the determination of stellar parallax.

Much of Shaftesbury's career, increasingly so as it came near its close, is incapable of defence; but it has escaped most of his critics that his life up to the Restoration, apparently full of inconsistencies, was evidently guided by one leading principle, the determination to uphold the supremacy of parliament, a principle which, however obscured by self-interest, appears also to have underlain his whole political career.

Such a determination is, however, extremely hazardous, even if it be admitted that the remains of cats from the rock-fissures of Gibraltar pertain to Felis ocreata.

The award of the court is thus the equivalent of the determination of a special board in Victoria, and deals with the same questions, the most important of which are the minimum rates of wages and the number of working hours per week.

One result of the victory of Heiligerlee was the determination of Alva that Egmont and Hoorn Orange outlawed.

Timokhin, armed only with a sword, had rushed at the enemy with such a desperate cry and such mad, drunken determination that, taken by surprise, the French had thrown down their muskets and run.

But within the Trinity Gateway he was so pressed to the wall by people who probably were unaware of the patriotic intentions with which he had come that in spite of all his determination he had to give in, and stop while carriages passed in, rumbling beneath the archway.

The final step in the determination of the present boundaries of the state was taken in 1896, when the Supreme Court of the United States decided the Greer county case.

It appears tolerably safe to conclude that, whatever errors 'may have affected the determination, the diameter or distance of the particles of water is between the two thousand and the ten thousand millionth of an inch " (= between 125 X I o 8 and 025 X 10 -8 cms.).

This led to the creation and determination of spheres of influence.

Sorensen, carried out a careful investigation of the relation between the amount of chlorine, the total salinity and the specific gravity of sea-water of different strengths including an entirely new determination of the thermal expansion of sea-water.

This plane must be near, but not coincident with, that of the ecliptic. It has therefore a node and a certain inclination to the ecliptic. The determination of these elements requires that, at some point within the tropics where the atmosphere is clear, observations of the position of the axis of the light among the stars should be made from time to time through an entire year.

The former determination is made by driving out the dissolved gases from solution and collecting them in a Torricellian vacuum, where the volume is measured after the carbonic acid has been removed.

All this evolution is the necessary consequence of the determination of the ego by the non-ego.

Hippocrates of Chios (c. 430 B.C.), the discoverer of the square of a lune, showed that the problem reduced to the determination of two mean proportionals between two given lines, one of them being twice the length of the other.

The determination to limit still further the power of the executive was at the bottom of this fatal parsimony, with the inevitable consequence that, while the king and the senate were powerless, every great noble or lord-marcher was free to do what he chose in his own domains, so long as he flattered his "little brothers," the szlachta.

During the voyage he experimented upon the determination of longitude by lunar distances, and ultimately effected the introduction of the method into navigation (q.v.).

We entered it with the determination and faith to make a marriage work.

Andros in Massachusetts was received, they took possession on the 31st of May 1689 of Fort James (at the southern end of Manhattan Island), renamed it Fort William and announced their determination to hold it until the arrival of a governor commissioned by the new sovereigns.

It was pushed with determination, but achieved no success, and no further attempt was made.

It is convenient to give this calculation before proceeding to describe the experimental determination of the velocity in air, in other gases and in water, since the calculation serves to some extent as a guide in conducting and interpreting the observations.

The method is easily adapted for the converse determination of speed of revolution when the frequency of a fork is known.

Kundt's dust-tube may also be employed for the determination of the ratio of the specific heats of a gas or vapour.

The convection of a medium thus polarized involves electric disturbance, and therefore must contribute to the true electric current; the determination of this constituent of the current is the most delicate point in the investigation.

No personal wrongs, but the deliberate determination of a strong-minded, capable woman to snatch the reins of government from the hands of a semi-imbecile, was the cause of Peter's overthrow, and his stupendous blunders supplied Catherine with her opportunity.

Here congregated hundreds of the younger szlachta, fresh from their school benches, whence they brought nothing but a smattering of Latin and a determination to make their way by absolute subservience to their "elder brethren," the pans.

The other was a new determination of the mechanical equivalent of heat.

The determination of any such intermediate value is performed byInterpolation.

The determination of each element in the remainder involves reference to an addition-table.

We cannot, however, find that he has furnished any substantial principles for its determination; indeed, he hardly seems to have formed a distinct general idea of the practical syllogism by which he conceives it to be effected.'

The instants of contact between the limbs of the sun and planet defied precise determination.

Determination was her motivation to stand up to Yancey.

Determination will make it work - determination and love.

The determination of the exact relationship of cause and effect in the origin of ocean currents is a matter of great practical importance.

Innocent IV., in his determination to crush the Hohenstaufens, offered the kingdom in turn to Richard, earl of Cornwall, to Edward, son of Henry III.