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Definition of "indefinite" []

  • Not definite, especially: (adjective)
  • Unclear; vague. (adjective)
  • Lacking precise limits: an indefinite leave of absence. (adjective)
  • Uncertain; undecided: indefinite about their plans. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "indefinite" in a sentence
  • "If an examiner, when evaluating a claim term's disclosed definition, concludes the definition is not clear and precise and one of ordinary skill in the art would consider the term indefinite e.g., the definition's broadest reasonable interpretation results in more than one meaning and/or interpretation, then a rejection under 35 U.S.C. 112, second paragraph, would be appropriate."
  • "You must know, if you would form an estimate of the Countess's heroic impudence, that a rumour was current in Lymport that the fair and well-developed Louisa Harrington, in her sixteenth year, did advisedly, and with the intention of rendering the term indefinite, entrust her guileless person to Mr. George Uplift's honourable charge."
  • "You must know, if you would form an estimate of the Countess's heroic impudence, that a rumour was current in Lymport that the fair and well - developed Louisa Harrington, in her sixteenth year, did advisedly, and with the intention of rendering the term indefinite, entrust her guileless person to Mr. George Uplift's honourable charge."