To set the boundaries or limits of. / To ascertain definitely; to figure out, find out, or conclude by analyzing, calculating, or investigating.

A determining factor; an element that determines the nature of something.

Serving to determine or limit; determinative.

The process of making or growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.

The act of determining, or the state of being determined. / Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion.

(transitive) To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair. / (intransitive) To grow worse; to be impaired in quality; to degenerate.

getting worse

present participle of deteriorate

Alternative form of nondeterminism

(philosophy) The doctrine that all actions are determined by the current state and immutable laws of the universe, with no possibility of choice.