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ent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation.

un. -- On, or Upon, the spot, immediately; before moving; without changing place. It was determined upon the spot. Swift.

To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate. He [Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief. Rom. iv. 20.

One of that class of Calvinists who believed that God's decree of election determined that man should fall, in order that the opportunity might be furnished of securing the redemption of a part of the race, the decree of salvation being conceived of as formed before or beyond, and not after or following, the lapse, or…

To hold in an undetermined or undecided state; as, to suspend one's judgment or opinion. Locke.

ipts or disbursements are temporarily entered until their proper position in the books is determined.

Capacity of a turning lathe, as determined by the diameter of the largest object that can be turned in it.

oath to share together good and bad fortune; hence, faithful friends. -- Sworn enemies, determined or irreconcilable enemies. -- Sworn friends, close friends.

Weighed; determined; reduced to equal or standard weight; as, tared filter papers, used in weighing precipitates.

Standardized; determined or analyzed by titration; as, titrated solutions.

action exerted on the skin is recognized; the sense by which the properties of bodies are determined by contact; the tactile sense. See Tactile sense, under Tactile. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine. Pope.

ound in a given substance, especially when so small that the amount is not quantitatively determined in an analysis;-hence, in stating an analysis, often contracted to tr.

In the Kantian system, of or pertaining to that which can be determined a priori in regard to the fundamental principles of all human knowledge. What is transcendental, therefore, transcends empiricism; but is does not transcend all human knowledge, or become transcendent. It simply signifies the a priori or necessary…

A winning card; one of a particular suit (usually determined by chance for each deal) any card of which takes any card of the other suits.

A test by which the fitness of a player or contestant to remain in a certain class is determined.

A switch which opens a circuit when the current falls below a certain predetermined value, used to protect certain types of motors from running at excessive speed upon decrease of load.

To overturn, overthrow, or overset; as, to upset a carriage; to upset an argument. "Determined somehow to upset the situation." Mrs. Humphry Ward.

rine that utility is the sole standard of morality, so that the rectitude of an action is determined by its usefulness.

Unsettled; unfixed; undetermined; indefinite; ambiguous; as, a vague idea; a vague proposition. This faith is neither a mere fantasy of future glory, nor a vague ebullition of feeling. I. Taylor. The poet turned away, and gave himself up to a sort of vague revery, which he called thought. Hawthorne.…

one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument. Vernier calipers, Vernier gauge, a gauge with a graduated bar and a sliding jaw bearing a vernier, used for accurate measurements. -- Verni…