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 indefinite [ɪn'dɛfənɪt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 模糊的, 不确定的, 无限的

[法] 不确定的, 无限制的




    indefinite
    [ adj ]
    1. vague or not clearly defined or stated

    2. <adj.all>
      must you be so indefinite?
      amorphous blots of color having vague and indefinite edges
      he would not answer so indefinite a proposal
    3. not decided or not known

    4. <adj.all>
      were indefinite about their plans
      plans are indefinite


    Indefinite \In*def"i*nite\, a. [L. indefinitus. See {In-} not,
    and {Definite}.]
    1. Not definite; not limited, defined, or specified; not
    explicit; not determined or fixed upon; not precise;
    uncertain; vague; confused; obscure; as, an indefinite
    time, plan, etc.

    It were to be wished that . . . men would leave off
    that indefinite way of vouching, ``the chymists say
    this,'' or ``the chymists affirm that.'' --Boyle.

    The time of this last is left indefinite. --Dryden.

    2. Having no determined or certain limits; large and
    unmeasured, though not infinite; unlimited; as, indefinite
    space; the indefinite extension of a straight line.

    Though it is not infinite, it may be indefinite;
    though it is not boundless in itself, it may be so
    to human comprehension. --Spectator.

    3. Boundless; infinite. [R.]

    Indefinite and omnipresent God,
    Inhabiting eternity. --W. Thompson
    (1745).

    4. (Bot.) Too numerous or variable to make a particular
    enumeration important; -- said of the parts of a flower,
    and the like. Also, indeterminate.

    {Indefinite article} (Gram.), the word a or an, used with
    nouns to denote any one of a common or general class.

    {Indefinite inflorescence}. (Bot.) See {Indeterminate
    inflorescence}, under {Indeterminate}.

    {Indefinite proposition} (Logic), a statement whose subject
    is a common term, with nothing to indicate distribution or
    nondistribution; as, Man is mortal.

    {Indefinite term} (Logic), a negative term; as, the not-good.

    Syn: Inexplicit; vague; uncertain; unsettled; indeterminate;
    loose; equivocal; inexact; approximate.

    1. With consumption well down mainly because of Russia's continuing and apparently indefinite absence from the market.
    2. Like many federal procurements, however, it is formally considered an "indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity" purchase agreement.
    3. Like many federal procurements, however, it is formally considered an "indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity" purchase agreement.
    4. The contract expired at midnight Monday, but the union, citing progress, agreed to an indefinite extension.
    5. "If I lose that I'll have to sell my home." For an indefinite period, California won't let Executive Life policyholders redeem, or "surrender," their policies or take out loans on them.
    6. The alternative is an indefinite future of violence." Airport employees had to moonlight as wranglers when about 50 cows wandered onto a runway and temporarily disrupted operations.
    7. She said the indefinite delay "gives time to settle the case" by dismissing the charges.
    8. "We called a force majeure for an indefinite time to protect ourselves in this specific case until we can resume normal shipments," he said.
    9. The indefinite layoff at the plant will idle 425 workers.
    10. The U.S. Commerce Department says the government declared itself in "informal, indefinite default" to all governmental lenders last year, meaning it made no interest or principal payments.
    11. Production rates at three Chrysler Corp. assembly plants will be cut in March, resulting in the indefinite layoffs of more than 2,000 workers, the company said.
    12. The Israeli army clamped an indefinite curfew on the Gaza Strip after 25 Palestinian protesters were wounded by troops and six Israelis were injured by a firebomb.
    13. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit of Appeals in New Orleans, in granting the indefinite stay, said it needed more time to study the case of 24-year-old Gary Graham.
    14. Mr. Ader says combining them into a vehicle with an indefinite lifespan will allow Integrated to buy out some leases and manage and trade the properties actively as a portfolio.
    15. The Transport and General Workers Union said 96 percent of its 9,400 dock workers stayed away on the first day of an indefinite strike for job guarantees at 60 ports nationwide.
    16. The army announced the entire Gaza Strip was closed at 9 p.m. and placed an indefinite curfew on the coastal area's 650,000 Arab residents.
    17. Subway workers will begin an indefinite strike for higher wages starting May 8, and railroad workers also threatened to walk off their jobs for better pay, union leaders said Tuesday.
    18. Wednesday was the first day of an indefinite police crackdown on petty crimes such as spitting, letting dogs run stray and littering.
    19. I intend to lextend the tenancy on an indefinite monthly basis.
    20. Tass said information of the indefinite launch delay came from "competent sources" at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, where the shuttle was poised for liftoff.
    21. But a company that agreed to perform a contract in Ohio but has no office there faces an indefinite period in which it can be sued.
    22. As expected, General Motors Corp. shut down its Framingham, Mass., plant this week for an indefinite period.
    23. Iraq complained bitterly about terms of the resolution, which calls for an indefinite arms embargo on Iraq, destruction of its most lethal weapons, and a diversion of future oil revenue to pay war reparations.
    24. National Medical Enterprises put the head of a unit on indefinite leave amid allegations that some of the unit's psychiatric hospitals engaged in illegal or unethical practices.
    25. The measure being debated in Latvia would, unlike Lithuania's declaration, take effect only after an indefinite transition period.
    26. "The information is so vague and indefinite that it's not the kind of information that should be circulating in the market.
    27. GM currently has 36,000 workers on indefinite layoff, up 4,000 from two weeks ago.
    28. "We see virtually no progress on the budgetary front and doubt the government can print $150 billion deficits for the indefinite future without some sort of adverse consequences for this economy," he warned.
    29. Anti-apartheid leaders say de Klerk and his National Party remain committed to preserving a special status for whites that would give them an indefinite hold on power.
    30. He imposed an indefinite nighttime curfew on the dusty capital of Africa's largest country, one-third the size of the continental United States.
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