determiner.
Someone or something that determines, or helps to determine, something else.
Meaning & usage
Someone or something that determines, or helps to determine, something else. A factor that defines something, or one among several that define it.
In quality management, the determiners of quality sometimes differ across use cases.
Someone or something that determines, or helps to determine, something else. Someone or something (especially a sentient agent) that determines; a decider of a disposition.
He is the determiner [usually referring to God (in theological contexts) and job roles (in administrative contexts)]
Who is the determiner? [administratively or theologically]
A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it.
Definite articles, indefinite articles, and cardinal numbers acting as quantifiers are types of determiners.
A dependent function in a noun phrase that marks it as definite or indefinite. This function is usually filled by words in the determinative class but may be filled by other elements such as a genitive pronoun.
In the sentence "Many people voted for him," the word many is a determiner.
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree English determine Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English determiner From determine + -er.
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