Synonyms:
deciding(a), determinant, determinative, determining(a)
Meaning: having the power or quality of deciding; "the crucial experiment"; "cast the deciding vote"; "the determinative (or determinant) battle"
Usage examples
This principle has a very important bearing in determining your emphasis.
"Clark, what in your honest opinion is the right standard for determining conduct?
It must have been written before 1833, but how much earlier there are no means of determining.
As a rule, men's station determines their occupation without their gifts determining their station.
The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conception of certain laws.
His intelligence and his wants are most important factors determining what the form of the physical world about him shall be.
"Very significant in determining the trend of our inmost thoughts were our dreams, which were never more vivid and numerous than just at this time.
In determining the place of thinking in experience we first noted that experience involves a connection of doing or trying with something which is undergone in consequence.
Evidently, however, tidal phenomena must be taken into consideration in any treatment of the solar system through enormous length of time, and it will probably play a large part in determining its future.
These old observations of Flamsteed and those of Le Monnier, combined with those made after Herschel's discovery, were very useful in determining an exact orbit for the new planet, and its motion was considered thoroughly known.