(a.) 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.
(a.) Having no determined or certain limits; large and unmeasured, though not infinite; unlimited; as indefinite space; the indefinite extension of a straight line.
(a.) Boundless; infinite.
(a.) Too numerous or variable to make a particular enumeration important; -- said of the parts of a flower, and the like. Also, indeterminate.
Example Sentences:
(1) At present, anyone can bring a legal action for an indefinite period over a posted article.
(2) Comparing measurements of base line and 30 and 60% of Pmmax indicated that the degree of asynchrony, paradox, and variation in compartmental contribution were significantly related to the level of the load; significant abnormalities were observed at even 30% of Pmmax, a target pressure that can be sustained indefinitely.
(3) In contrast, administration of anti-Lyt-2 mAb alone (MST = greater than 47 days) or together with anti-L3T4 mAb (MST = greater than 50 days) caused prolonged or indefinite graft survival in all recipient mice.
(4) Government officials drew the public’s ire after charging Manning with three counts of misconduct following the suicide attempt, including two which carried possible penalties of indefinite solitary confinement.
(5) The authors insist on the interest of the latter prosthesis, made concurrently, easily and solidly fixed, and immediately and indefinitely well tolerated.
(6) It is concluded that maintenance treatment of ulcerative colitis with sulphasalazine should be continued indefinitely unless contraindicated by side effects.
(7) Explicit expressions are derived which describe the binding of a univalent ligand to equivalent and independent sites on each state of an acceptor undergoing indefinite self-association that is governed by an isodesmic equilibrium constant KI.
(8) Upon infection with the adenovirus 12-simian virus 40 hybrid virus, primary human epidermal keratinocytes acquired an indefinite life span in culture but did not undergo malignant conversion.
(9) It stores up a problem: you can spread staff thinner for a short period of time but unless there is a managed staff restructuring a department could struggle to ask colleagues to fill in indefinitely.
(10) Concomitant administration of ART-18 and ART-65 to recipient animals in relatively low doses exerted a strikingly synergistic effect, with 30% of the transplants surviving indefinitely and 50% undergoing late rejection over 50 d. These studies provide evidence that anti-IL-2-R mAbs selectively spare phenotypically distinct T cells with suppressor functions.
(11) IHMS appears complicit in plans to detain children and adolescents on Christmas Island long term (indefinitely),” the doctors write.
(12) Since these cells are of indefinite origin, there is no way to predict which HCO3- transporting system is operable in these cells and, hence, what effect HCO3- will have on the pHin and the response of pHin to mitogens.
(13) Acid fast rods, constituting chemoautotrophic nocardioform bacteria, could be repeatedly cultivated and isolated and propagated indefinitely in vitro from fish actinomycotic macrophage granuloma from the massive epizootics of ulcerative disease syndrome of fish in eastern India during 1988-90.
(14) The other patient may use this technique indefinitely.
(15) With appropriate management, androgen levels can be maintained within the normal range indefinitely.
(16) Statistical analysis of an accelerated storage test by extrapolation of viral degradation indicates that the lyophilized viruses are stable indefinitely at or below room temperature.
(17) It is concluded that, at the present time, antibiotic coverage for an indefinite period of time may be indicated for surgically or functionally asplenic patients.
(18) I think it’s unlikely that they have an H-bomb at the moment, but I don’t expect them to keep testing basic devices indefinitely, either,” said Jeffrey Lewis of the California-based Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.
(19) Reduced CCT was found in chronic degenerations of leutic, tuberculous or indefinite nature.
(20) We consider that the long-term use of topical mechlorethamine may be a safe form of therapy, but that a continuous indefinite follow-up of patients on this medication should be mandatory.
Unclear
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) ), nosological frontiers are still unclear and accordingly justify a comparative serological study of M.M., W.M., and B.M.G.
(2) However, the effects of such large-scale calvarial repositioning on subsequent brain mass growth trajectories and compensatory cranio-facial growth changes is unclear.
(3) Thus it is unclear how a language learner determines whether German even has a regular plural, and if so what form it takes.
(4) It is unclear if the changes in high-energy phosphates during endotoxin shock cause irreversibility.
(5) It’s unclear too whether Google will continue to pay Mozilla to be the default browser in countries outside the US, Russia and China when the current deal ends in December.
(6) Factors contributing to a more aggressive form of carcinoma are unclear and require further study.
(7) Two people were injured and taken to hospital, but it is still unclear who was responsible.
(8) The benefit of routine preoperative CT in patients with otherwise resectable colonic or rectal cancer remains unclear.
(9) Whether we are dealing with true Osborn waves is unclear.
(10) Many governments try to protect their tax base through national blacklists based on criteria that are often unclear and inconsistently applied.
(11) Although the mechanism(s) of Vb depolarization in OMCD is unclear at the moment, this depolarization suggests that OMCD is responsive to peritubular pH alterations.
(12) Poor prognostic factors included associated chondromalacia and an unclear preoperative diagnosis.
(13) Because the mechanism whereby Shigella dysenteriae I enterotoxin induces intestinal secretion is unclear, the effect of this toxin on adenylate cyclase activity in rabbit ileal mucosa was studied under various in vitro and in vivo conditions.
(14) The factors predisposing to and complicating acute renal failure (ARF) in the medical intensive care unit (ICU), and their relative influence on outcome during ARF are unclear.
(15) Preliminary studies using amino acid and ion inhibition studies suggested that transporter I was a system ASC-type carrier, transporter III a system L carrier, while the nature of transporter II was unclear.
(16) However the mechanisms responsible for these phenomena are unclear.
(17) Hyperferritinemia, an unclear mechanism, is frequently observed in chronic alcoholics.
(18) Previously, we found resting metabolic rate increased at high altitude but the mechanism and consequences of this increase were unclear.
(19) The mechanism behind this increased thyroid volume is unclear, as most patients had normal serum thyrotropin levels and no thyroid autoimmunity.
(20) These data notwithstanding, the role of SIV genetic variation in the pathogenesis of AIDS in monkeys remains unclear.