Indeterminate may refer to:
In mathematics
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Indeterminate (variable)
In mathematics, an indeterminate or formal variable is a Variable (mathematics), variable (a mathematical symbol, symbol, usually a letter) that is used purely formally in a mathematical expression, but does not stand for any value.
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, a symbol that is treated as a variable
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Indeterminate system
In mathematics, particularly in number theory, an indeterminate system has fewer equations than unknowns but an additional a set of constraints on the unknowns, such as restrictions that the values be integers. In modern times indeterminate equati ...
, a system of simultaneous equations that has more than one solution
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Indeterminate equation
In mathematics, particularly in number theory, an indeterminate system has fewer equations than unknowns but an additional a set of constraints on the unknowns, such as restrictions that the values be integers. In modern times indeterminate equati ...
, an equation that has more than one solution
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Indeterminate form
Indeterminate form is a mathematical expression that can obtain any value depending on circumstances. In calculus, it is usually possible to compute the limit of the sum, difference, product, quotient or power of two functions by taking the corres ...
, an algebraic expression with certain limiting behaviour in mathematical analysis
Other
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Indeterminate growth
In biology and botany, indeterminate growth is growth that is not terminated, in contrast to determinate growth that stops once a genetically predetermined structure has completely formed. Thus, a plant that grows and produces flowers and fruit ...
, a term in biology and especially botany
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Indeterminacy (philosophy)
Indeterminacy, in philosophy, can refer both to common scientific and mathematical concepts of uncertainty and their implications and to another kind of indeterminacy deriving from the nature of definition or meaning. It is related to deconstructi ...
, describing the shortcomings of definition in philosophy
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Indeterminacy (music)
Indeterminacy is a composing approach in which some aspects of a musical work are left open to chance or to the interpreter's free choice. John Cage, a pioneer of indeterminacy, defined it as "the ability of a piece to be performed in substantially ...
, music for which the composition or performance is determined by chance
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Statically indeterminate
In statics and structural mechanics, a structure is statically indeterminate when the equilibrium equations force and moment equilibrium conditions are insufficient for determining the internal forces and reactions on that structure.
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, in statics, describing a structure for which the static equilibrium equations are insufficient for determining the internal forces
See also
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Indeterminacy (disambiguation)
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