determinate

That could be for example, everyone convicted of manslaughter who is serving a determinate sentence - informally estimated as just under 500 people.

From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026

In the email to Lees, seen by the BBC, the officer writes the two prisoners can have their custodial terms reduced as they are serving a standard determinate sentence.

From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026

The French Revolution then dynamited Europe’s old order and dynamized society as a collective organism, evolving in a “quasi-biological and determinate way.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

I would be excited to add a larger system that accommodates larger plants like compact dwarf or determinate tomatoes.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 27, 2023

Substantial Forms, Occult Qualities, Intentional Species, Idiosyncrasies, Sympathies and Antipathies of Things, are exploded...because they are only empty Sounds, Words whereof no Man can form a certain and determinate Idea.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

That's precisely what them men war determinated not ter be!

From The Young Mountaineers Short Stories by Malcolm Fraser

The New Englanders were anxious to buy the lands, but were earnest in their determinating to exclude slavery from the new territory.

From The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 by Theodore Roosevelt

Mind is the determinating principle; matter is indeterminate and indefinite.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker

Its character is such that it becomes the determinating factor of human adaptations to the conditions imposed by the environment, by envisaging the enduring and efficacious elements among these conditions as persons.

From Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by Boyd H. Bode

But even to-day what do we find the general reliance of the American mind in determinating this question?

From Civilization the Primal Need of the Race The American Negro Academy. Occasional Paper No. 3 by Alexander Crummell

If we must look for some determinating influences during the childhood of Schiller, they are chiefly to be found in the character of his father.

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller