noun

1. An ideogram used to mark semantic categories of words in logographic scripts.

2. (grammar) A member of a class of words functioning in a noun phrase to identify or distinguish a referent without describing or modifying it. Examples of determinatives include articles (a, the), demonstratives (this, those), cardinal numbers (three, fifty), and indefinite numerals (most, any, each).

Synonyms: determiner, taxogram

adjective

1. Determining (deciding) something.