indeterminate
B2CEFR level
40/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
Medicine adjective
Describing a result that cannot be classified with confidence and needs further investigation.
Because the reaction was indeterminate, the report advised a confirmatory assay.
Law adjective
Having no fixed end date, with release depending on an assessment of risk.
An indeterminate sentence for public protection left him wholly reliant on the Parole Board.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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