PREDETERMINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does predetermine mean? 

• PREDETERMINE (verb)
  The verb PREDETERMINE has 2 senses:

1. determine beforehand

2. cause to be biased

  Familiarity information: PREDETERMINE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREDETERMINE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they predetermine    ... he / she / it predetermines   
Past simple: predetermined   
Past participle: predetermined   
-ing form: predetermining   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Determine beforehand

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "predetermine" is one way to...):

determine; influence; mold; regulate; shape (shape or influence; give direction to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "predetermine"):

foreordain; predestine; preordain (foreordain or determine beforehand)

foreordain; predestinate; predestine (foreordain by divine will or decree)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE
Somebody ----s whether INFINITIVE

Derivation:

predetermination (the act of determining or ordaining in advance what is to take place)

predetermination (a mental determination or resolve in advance; an antecedent intention to do something)

predetermination ((theology) being determined in advance; especially the doctrine (usually associated with Calvin) that God has foreordained every event throughout eternity (including the final salvation of mankind))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause to be biased

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

bias; predetermine

Hypernyms (to "predetermine" is one way to...):

prejudice; prepossess (influence (somebody's) opinion in advance)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "predetermine"):

angle; slant; weight (present with a bias)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

 Context examples 

An indication that the study subject was sacrificed at a predetermined time before the end of the planned treatment period.

(Planned Interim Sacrifice, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A predetermined set of questions designed to identify individuals without significant health related issues to participate in a research study.

(Healthy Volunteer Medical History Questionnaire, NCI Thesaurus)

A relative measurement (ratio or percentage) of time from the start of the thrombin generation test to the point where a predetermined amount of thrombin is generated.

(Endogenous Thrombin Potential Lag Time Relative Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

A measurement of time from the start of the thrombin generation test to the point where a predetermined amount of thrombin is generated.

(Endogenous Thrombin Potential Lag Time Measurement, NCI Thesaurus)

An indication that the study subject was euthanized during a predetermined time.

(Planned Interim Sacrifice, NCI Thesaurus)

A switch designed to cut off power automatically to a moving object when it reaches a predetermined point.

(Limit Switch Device Component, NCI Thesaurus)

Astrology does not give a predetermined result—you can do what feels right for you.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The detailed planning of studies of the safety, efficacy, or optimum dosage schedule (if appropriate) of one or more diagnostic, therapeutic, or prophylactic drugs, devices, or techniques selected according to predetermined criteria of eligibility and observed for predefined evidence of favorable and unfavorable effects.

(Clinical Trials Design, NCI Thesaurus)

A method of intravenous narcotic analgesic delivery that uses a pump or similar delivery system that allows the patient, or in the absence of the patient's ability to do so the patient's nurse or family members, to administer predetermined doses of analgesic as needed to maintain adequate pain control.

(Intravenous Patient-Controlled Analgesia, NCI Thesaurus)

Organized systems for providing comprehensive prepaid health care that have five basic attributes: (1) provide care in a defined geographic area; (2) provide or ensure delivery of an agreed-upon set of basic and supplemental health maintenance and treatment services; (3) provide care to a voluntarily enrolled group of persons; (4) require their enrollees to use the services of designated providers; and (5) receive reimbursement through a predetermined, fixed, periodic prepayment made by the enrollee without regard to the degree of services provided.

(Health Maintenance Organization, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)