indeterminacy

indeterminacy
The condition of being indeterminate.

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  • Indeterminacy — may refer to: * Indeterminacy in computation (disambiguation) * The indeterminacy problem in history and sociology * aleatoric music and indeterminacy in music. * Statically indeterminate *Indeterminacy (literature) a literary termIn law: *… …   Wikipedia

  • indeterminacy — of translation …   Philosophy dictionary

  • indeterminacy — index ambiguity, ambivalence, chance (possibility) Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • indeterminacy — (n.) 1640s, see INDETERMINATE (Cf. indeterminate) + ACY (Cf. acy) …   Etymology dictionary

  • indeterminacy — [in΄dē tʉr′mi nə sē, in΄ditʉr′mi nə sē] n. the state or quality of being indeterminate …   English World dictionary

  • indeterminacy — [[t]ɪ̱ndɪtɜ͟ː(r)mɪnəsi[/t]] N UNCOUNT The indeterminacy of something is its quality of being uncertain or vague. [FORMAL] ...the indeterminacy of language …   English dictionary

  • indeterminacy — /in di terr meuh neuh see/, n. the condition or quality of being indeterminate; indetermination. [1640 50; INDETERMIN(ATE) + ACY] * * * ▪ literature       in literature, the multiplicity of possible interpretations of given textual elements. The… …   Universalium

  • indeterminacy — neapibrėžtis statusas T sritis automatika atitikmenys: angl. indefiniteness; indeterminacy; uncertainty vok. Unbestimmtheit, f rus. неопределенность, f pranc. incertitude, f …   Automatikos terminų žodynas

  • indeterminacy — indeterminate ► ADJECTIVE 1) not exactly known, established, or defined. 2) Mathematics (of a quantity) having no definite or definable value. DERIVATIVES indeterminacy noun indeterminately adverb …   English terms dictionary

  • Indeterminacy (philosophy) — Indeterminacy, in philosophy, can refer both to common scientific and mathematical concepts of uncertainty and their implications and to another kind of indeterminacy deriving from the nature of definition or meaning.[citation needed] It is… …   Wikipedia

  • Indeterminacy in concurrent computation — is concerned with the effects of indeterminacy in concurrent computation. Computation is an area in which indeterminacy is becoming increasingly important because of the massive increase in concurrency due to networking and the advent of… …   Wikipedia

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