definiens

noun
/dɪˈfɪnɪɛnz/UK

Etymology

From Latin, substantive use of dēfīniēns (“[a] defining”), present active participle of dēfīniō.

Definitions

  1. 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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