indefinite  /ɪnd'ɛfənət/

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資料來源(1): pydict data [pydict]

  indefinite
  (a.)模糊的,不確定的,無限的

資料來源(2): Network Terminology [netterm]

  indefinite
  不定

資料來源(3): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  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.

資料來源(4): WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]

  indefinite
       adj 1: vague or not clearly defined or stated; "must you be so
              indefinite?"; "amorphous blots of color having vague
              and indefinite edges"; "he would not answer so
              indefinite a proposal" [ant: {definite}]
       2: not decided or not known; "were indefinite about their
          plans"; "plans are indefinite"