Definiteness refers to a grammatical component of nominals that denotes specificity of identification or ambiguity. This specificity can be marked by articles or by affixes. Example: Definite: “the glass of water” Indefinite: “a glass of water

A grammatical feature belonging to DPs ( the/this/that, etc.) that mark specificity. Definiteness can influence the agreement spell-out of a verb: e.g., [-Def A number] of students * is/are vs. [+Def The numbe of students is/*are.

In grammatical theory, definiteness is a feature of noun phrases, distinguishing between entities which are specific and identifiable in a given context (definite noun phrases) and entities which are not (indefinite noun phrases).

A matrix A is positive definite if xT A x 0 for all nonzero x. Positive definite matrices have other interesting properties such as being nonsingular, having its largest element on the diagonal, and having all positive diagonal elements. Like diagonal dominance, positive definiteness obviates the need for pivoting in Gaussian elimination. A positive semidefinite matrix has xT A x = 0 for all nonzero x. Negative definite and negative semidefinite matrices have the inequality signs reveresed above.

The state of being definite; determinateness; precision; certainty.

description difficult disregard draw

A characteristic of a patent claim in which claim language makes the scope of the claim clear to a person skilled in the art to which the invention pertains.

the quality of being predictable with great confidence