Origin: Latin suffix -ate
Indeterminate has 7 different meanings across 1 category:
A symbol that resembles a variable or parameter but is used purely formally and neither signifies nor is ever assigned a particular value;, (loose sense) a variable.
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"
of uncertain or ambiguous nature
"the equivocal (or indeterminate) objects painted by surrealists"
(of a quantity) having no definite value, as an equation that cannot be solved
"0/0 is an indeterminate form"
Not accurately determined or determinable.