Indeterminate may refer to:
In mathematics
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Indeterminate (variable)
In mathematics, particularly in formal algebra, an indeterminate is a symbol that is treated as a variable, but does not stand for anything else except itself. It may be used as a placeholder in objects such as polynomials and formal power seri ...
, a symbol that is treated as a variable
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Indeterminate system In mathematics, particularly in algebra, an indeterminate system is a system of simultaneous equations (e.g., linear equations) which has more than one solution (sometimes infinitely many solutions). In the case of a linear system, the system may b ...
, a system of simultaneous equations that has more than one solution
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Indeterminate equation In mathematics, particularly in algebra, an indeterminate equation is an equation for which there is more than one solution. For example, the equation ax + by =c is a simple indeterminate equation, as is x^2=1. Indeterminate equations cannot be solv ...
, an equation that has more than one solution
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Indeterminate form
In calculus and other branches of mathematical analysis, limits involving an algebraic combination of functions in an independent variable may often be evaluated by replacing these functions by their limits; if the expression obtained after this s ...
, 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 pre-determined 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 deconstruc ...
, 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 static 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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