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determination

Definition

  • noun: a quality that makes you continue trying to do or achieve something that is difficult
  • noun: a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy
  • often followed by 'to + verb'
  • synonyms: judgment, resolve, firmness

Examples

  • The inspectors made the 'determination' that the building was unsafe. [=they determined/decided that the building was unsafe]

  • The new instruments allow for more precise 'determination of' the size of the tumor.

  • They were unable to make an accurate 'determination of' the ship's position.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) and a global police force. Some of its goals are as follows: Community. The danger and loss in crime and degeneracy. The determination to make community life safe, sanitary, wholesome and moral. Industrial. The disappearance of class distinctions... (..)
    2009 Loose Change 9/11: An American Coup