determinate

形容词 determinate:

1. precisely determined or limited or defined; especially fixed by rule or by a specific and constant cause
2. not continuing to grow indefinitely at the apex
3. supplying or being a final or conclusive settlement
   同义词：definitive

1. The determinate factor of our economy is to control inflation.
   我们经济的决定性因素是控制通货膨胀。
2. Our manager has made a determinate mind.
   经理下了决心。

de.ter.mi.nate

adj.（形容词）
Precisely limited or defined; definite:
确定的，限定的：被准确地加以限制的；限定的：
例句：
a determinate number; a determinate distance.
确定的数；确定的距离

Conclusively settled; final.
最后确定的；最终的
Firm in purpose; resolute.
目的明确的；坚决的
Botany
【植物学】
Terminating in a flower and blooming in a sequence beginning with the uppermost or central flower; cymose:
依序绽放的，聚伞花序的：从最上面的或中间的花开始以一定的顺序开花，最后在一朵花上终止的；聚伞花序的：
例句：
a determinate inflorescence.
依序绽放的花序

Not continuing indefinitely at the tip of an axis:
有限的：在一根轴的尖端不是无限制继续的：
例句：
determinate growth.
有限的增长

来源：
Middle English
中古英语
from Latin dôtermin3tus [past participle of] dôtermin3re [to determine] * see determine
源自 拉丁语 dôtermin3tus [] dôtermin3re的过去分词 [决定] *参见 determine

【引伸】
deter.minately
adv.（副词）
deter.minateness
n.（名词）