"indeterminate" meaning in English

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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "indeterminate state"
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0 0 0",
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          "code": "bg",
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          "roman": "neopredelen",
          "sense": "not accurately determined",
          "word": "неопределен"
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          "sense": "not accurately determined",
          "word": "indéterminé"
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          "sense": "not accurately determined",
          "word": "unbestimmt"
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          "roman": "aprimit",
          "sense": "not accurately determined",
          "word": "अपरिमित"
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          "sense": "not accurately determined",
          "word": "határozatlan"
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          "sense": "not accurately determined",
          "word": "bizonytalan"
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          "sense": "not accurately determined",
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          "sense": "not accurately determined",
          "word": "neamhchinntithe"
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          "sense": "not accurately determined",
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        "(botany, of inflorescences) Not topped with some form of terminal bud."
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        "Intersex."
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          "text": "It bears an affinity to the problem of indeterminate architecture—the indeterminate residential area.",
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          "text": "1892, Henry B. Fine, Kronecker and His Arithmetical Theory of the Algebraic Equation, Thomas S. Fiske, Harold Jacoby (editors), Bulletin of the New York Mathematical Society, Volume 1, New York Mathematical Society, page 179,\nSuch a factor is therefore an integral function of x and the indeterminates u_1,u_2,…u_n with coefficients belonging to the domain of rationality (R',R,..) and may be represented by g(x,u_1,u_2,..u_n)."
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