All 5 Uses
indeterminate
in
The Goldfinch
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- Often—amidst the crackle of strewn newspapers —I drifted in and out of sleep, and my dreams for the most part were muddied with the same indeterminate anxiety that bled through into my waking hours: court cases, luggage burst open on the tarmac with my clothes scattered everywhere and endless airport corridors where I ran for planes I knew I'd never make.†
p. 6.8
- I found myself blinking up in the late afternoon glare at a very tall, very very tanned, very thin man, of indeterminate age.†
p. 310.5 *
- At her side, also on skis, were a pair of bundled-up little blond kids of indeterminate sex.†
p. 533.2
- I WAS AWAKENED, AT some indeterminate hour, by a bell buzzing loudly at my door which made me leap up as if I'd been scalded.†
p. 690.4
- BORIS WAS RIGHT ABOUT his dope, how pure it was—pure white, a normal sized bump knocked me cockeyed, so that for an indeterminate interlude I drifted in and out pleasantly on the verge of death.†
p. 691.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(indeterminate) unknown or uncertain
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Specialized definitions:
Mathematics: without numeric meanings (as in 0 divided by itself); or having infinite solutions
Botany: having a capacity to continue to grow at the apex