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/dɪˈtɜːrmɪnəsi/ · de·ter·mi·ny
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- The quality or state of being determinate; definiteness or exactness. The determinacy of the contract’s terms left no room for later dispute.
- In logic and game theory, the property that a game is determined, meaning one of the players has a winning strategy. The determinacy of certain infinite games was proved using advanced set‑theoretic methods.
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Did you know? The concept of determinacy became a central topic in set theory after the 1960s, influencing the development of descriptive set theory and the study of infinite games.