定

Meaning

定 centers on making something firm and settled: determining a course, fixing a value, establishing a rule, or deciding an outcome. All its meanings share the idea of bringing something from an unsettled state into a stable, definite one.

• 予定よてい

  plans; arrangement; schedule; program; programme; expectation; estimate

• 設定せってい

  establishment; creation; posing (a problem); setting (movie, novel, etc.); scene

• 限定げんてい

  limit; restriction

• 決定けってい

  decision; determination

• 指定してい

  designation; specification; assignment; appointment; pointing at

• 特定とくてい

  specific; particular; designated; special

• 安定あんてい

  stability; steadiness; consistency; equilibrium; balance; composure

• 定期ていき

  fixed period; fixed term

• 固定こてい

  fixing (in place); being fixed (in place); securing; anchoring; fastening down

• 確定かくてい

  decision; settlement; confirmation; establishment

• 認定にんてい

  authorization; authorisation; acknowledgment; acknowledgement; certification; recognition

• 否定ひてい

  denial; negation; repudiation; disavowal

• 一定いってい

  to fix; to settle; to standardize; to regularize

• 規定きてい

  stipulation; prescription; provision; regulation; rule

• 定義ていぎ

  definition

• 想定そうてい

  hypothesis; supposition; assumption; expectation; anticipation

• 判定はんてい

  judgement; judgment; decision; ruling; finding; adjudication; verdict; call

• 測定そくてい

  measurement

• 定着ていちゃく

  sticking (in one place, position, etc.); settling; fixing; adherence

• 不安定ふあんてい

  instability; insecurity; crankiness

• 協定きょうてい

  arrangement; pact; agreement

• 定番ていばん

  standard item; usual thing; (a) classic; go-to choice; staple; regular fixture; standard procedure; convention

• 推定すいてい

  presumption; assumption

• 鑑定かんてい

  judgement; judgment; expert opinion; appraisal

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