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The adjective determined means devoted or dedicated to a cause or activity. (e.g. He was determined to succeed. / They were fighting a determined enemy.) The past tense determined (verb to determine) can mean: * discovered by experiment or analysis. (e.g. They determined the cause of the spill.)
a. the decomposition of a substance into its elements, radicals, or other constituents in order to determine the kinds of constituents present (qualitative analysis) or the amount of each constituent (quantitative analysis) b. the result obtained by such a determination.