definiens
noun/dɪˈfɪnɪɛnz/UK
Etymology
From Latin, substantive use of dēfīniēns (“[a] defining”), present active participle of dēfīniō.
Definitions
The word or phrase that defines the definiendum in a definition.
- Yet such predicates will not in general even be interpreted over the domain of objects over which the definientia range.
- In these definitions, then, there is only one part of the definiens, the form (e.g. being a human soul), which is prior to the kind and its matter.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for definiens. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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