(biology) A substance, present in an egg or blastomere, that determines the fate of those cells that inherit it during cleavage.

(US) An institution in which juvenile offenders are temporarily housed.

(Britain) A vehicle equipped with electronic instrumentation that can detect the oscillator of a domestic television, used by the licensing authority to check that a household with no TV licence does not have a television receiver

able to be determined or limited / (law) able to be decided or settled by law / (law, postpositive) Of a tenure or estate in land, able to be determined on the occurrence of some event.

(philosophy) An attribute of something that is susceptible of determination into various states

A device that detects heat and sounds an alarm.

Marked by self-determination.

The ability or right to make one's own decisions without interference from others / (politics) The political independence of a people

(analytical chemistry) An item of laboratory equipment used coupled to a gas chromatograph for the detection and quantification of very minute amounts halogenated organic compounds.

(archaic) third-person singular simple present indicative form of detect