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# indeterminable

«indeterminable» in Mova's school dictionary: **impossible to find out, measure or decide exactly** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (indeterminable)

### meaning for a pupil

(formal) Indeterminable means impossible to find out, measure or decide exactly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indeterminable/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science, some things are indeterminable with our tools, such as the exact age of a very damaged fossil. In maths, if a problem does not give enough information, the answer is indeterminable. In history, the exact birth date of some ancient people is indeterminable. It is a stiff, formal word.

### examples

- The age of the old bone was indeterminable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indeterminable/#x1)
- Without the price of one apple, the total is indeterminable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indeterminable/#x2)
- The cause of the fire was indeterminable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indeterminable/#x3)
- The colour of the faded flag is now indeterminable. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indeterminable/#x4)
- Her accent was of an indeterminable origin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indeterminable/#x5)
- How many sweets are in the jar is indeterminable without counting. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indeterminable/#x6)

### note

Formal. Means «cannot be determined». Close to «indeterminate» but stronger: indeterminable means you cannot find it out at all, indeterminate means not fixed or not clear.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «indeterminable» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indeterminable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.