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definite

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definite
/def"euh nit/, adj.
1. clearly defined or determined; not vague or general; fixed; precise; exact: a definite quantity; definite directions.
2. having fixed limits; bounded with precision: a definite area.
3. positive; certain; sure: It is definite that he will take the job.
4. defining; limiting.
5. Bot. (of an inflorescence) determinate.
[1520-30; < L definitus limited, precise, ptp. of definire; see DEFINE, -ITE2]
Syn. 1. specific, particular. 2. well-defined.

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  • Eleventh Five-Year Period: Time And People., 1986 — About improvement of economic mechanism basing on examples of definite enterprises: "Rostselmash" ["Rostov Agriculture Machinery Plant"}, the collective farm named after Frunze (a Russian revolutionary) in the Belgorod Region, the collective farm "Krasnaya Zarya" ["Red Dawn"] of the Pskov Region and others.
  • When I Come Back, 1989 — About lives of people who left the homeland for various reasons.