Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word CERTAIN
CERTAIN
Definitions of CERTAIN
- Not to be doubted or denied; established as a fact.
- Unfailing; infallible.
- Sure in one's mind, positive; absolutely confident in the truth of something.
- Sure to happen, inevitable; assured.
- Fixed; regular; determinate.
- Particular and definite, but unspecified or unnamed; used to introduce someone or something without going into further detail.
- (preceded by "a", of a person) Named but not previously mentioned.
- (obsolete) Determined; resolved.
- (with of) Unnamed or undescribed members (of).
- A surname.
- (preceded by "a", of a person) Used before the name of someone famous that people are expected to know.
- (euphemism, preceded by "a") Used to denote that the speaker is referring to a specific person or thing that they do not want to name directly, implying that the listener should infer the identity of the referent.
Number of letters
7
Is palindrome
No
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Examples of Using CERTAIN in a Sentence
- In the common law, an answer is the first pleading by a defendant, usually filed and served upon the plaintiff within a certain strict time limit after a civil complaint or criminal information or indictment has been served upon the defendant.
- Acids form aqueous solutions with a sour taste, can turn blue litmus red, and react with bases and certain metals (like calcium) to form salts.
- In certain sensory neurons (pseudounipolar neurons), such as those for touch and warmth, the axons are called afferent nerve fibers and the electrical impulse travels along these from the periphery to the cell body and from the cell body to the spinal cord along another branch of the same axon.
- In Western Christianity, including Roman Catholicism and certain parts of Lutheranism and Anglicanism, All Souls' Day is the third day of Allhallowtide, after All Saints' Day (1 November) and All Hallows' Eve (31 October).
- While the electron has a negative electric charge, the positron has a positive electric charge, and is produced naturally in certain types of radioactive decay.
- It was engraved on certain antique gemstones, called on that account Abraxas stones, which were used as amulets or charms.
- The Artistic License is an open-source license used for certain free and open-source software packages, most notably the standard implementation of the Perl programming language and most CPAN modules, which are dual-licensed under the Artistic License and the GNU General Public License (GPL).
- The use of adhesives offers certain advantages over other binding techniques such as sewing, mechanical fastenings, and welding.
- Alexandria was platted in 1836, when it was certain that the Indiana Central Canal would be extended to that point.
- In mathematics, the ascending chain condition (ACC) and descending chain condition (DCC) are finiteness properties satisfied by some algebraic structures, most importantly ideals in certain commutative rings.
- It forms the supporting structure in the cell walls of certain species of algae and is released on boiling.
- Blue laws (also known as Sunday laws, Sunday trade laws, and Sunday closing laws) are laws restricting or banning certain activities on specified days, usually Sundays in the western world.
- The Bible is a collection of religious texts or scriptures which to a certain degree are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baháʼí Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.
- While at bats are used to calculate certain statistics, including batting average and slugging percentage, a player can qualify for the season-ending rankings in these categories only if they accumulate 502 plate appearances during the season.
- The date of composition is a matter of contention among scholars; the only certain dating is for the manuscript, which was produced between 975 and 1025 AD.
- In Norse mythology, Brísingamen (or Brísinga men) is the torc or necklace of the goddess Freyja, of which little else is known for certain.
- BQP can be viewed as the languages associated with certain bounded-error uniform families of quantum circuits.
- In statistical mechanics and mathematics, a Boltzmann distribution (also called Gibbs distribution) is a probability distribution or probability measure that gives the probability that a system will be in a certain state as a function of that state's energy and the temperature of the system.
- The place in which they were minted is not certain but is thought to be somewhere near Pamplona, in the heartland of the area that historians believe was inhabited by the Vascones.
- Not all people considered "black" have dark skin; in certain countries, often in socially based systems of racial classification in the Western world, the term "black" is used to describe persons who are perceived as dark-skinned compared to other populations.
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