Indeterminate

(adj.) not leading to a definite ending or result; 'an indeterminate campaign' .

(adj.) not capable of being determined; 'the indeterminate number of plant species in the jungle' .

(adj.) not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance; 'of indeterminate age'; 'a zillion is a large indeterminate number'; 'an indeterminate point of law'; 'the influence of environment is indeterminate'; 'an indeterminate future' .

(adj.) having a capacity for continuing to grow at the apex; 'an indeterminate stem' .

(adj.) of uncertain or ambiguous nature; 'the equivocal (or indeterminate) objects painted by surrealists' .

编辑:斯坦利

• Possibly they pronounced their consonants very hard and had rather indeterminate vowels, as is said to be still the case with tribes of South Arabia. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• This implies that the situation as it stands is, either in fact or to us, incomplete and hence indeterminate. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

校对:塔玛拉