determine

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA ^(key): /dɪ'tɜːmɪn/
• (US) IPA ^(key): /dɪ'tɝmɪn/

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Verb

Plain form determine

Third-person singular determines

Past tense determined

Past participle determined

Present participle determining

Determine is on the Academic Vocabulary List.

1. If A determines the outcome of B, A causes B to occur in a certain way.
2. (transitive) If you determine something, you conclude it by analyzing or investigating.

   The autopsy will determine her cause of death.

Related words

• determination
• determined
• undetermined
• determinedly
• indeterminate
• determinate
• determinant
• determinism
• determinist
• deterministic
• deterministically
• indeterminacy