determining

1. 1.

   having the power or quality of deciding

   “the crucial experiment”

   “cast the deciding vote”

   “the determinative (or determinant) battle”

   Synonymsdecidingdeterminantdeterminative

   Similardecisive

Questions about determining

What does determining mean?

determining means "having the power or quality of deciding".

How many syllables are in determining?

determining has 4 syllables: de-ter-mi-ning. The stress falls on "ter". In IPA it is /dɪˈtɝmənɪŋ/.

What is another word for determining?

Close synonyms include deciding, determinant, determinative. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is determining a common word?

determining is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.