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Indeterminate
Not determinate not certain or fixed indefinite not precise as an indeterminate number of years...
Indeterminate sentencing
Indeterminate sentencing, means the practice of not imposing a definite term of confinement, but instead prescribing a range for the minimum and maximum term, leaving the precise term to be fixed in some other way, usu. based on the prisoner's conduct and apparent rehabilitation while incar-cerated, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 774....
sentence
sentence [Old French, opinion, judicial sentence, from Latin sententia, ultimately from sentire to feel, think, express an opinion] 1 : a judgment formally pronouncing the punishment to be inflicted on one convicted of a crime 2 : the punishment that one convicted of a crime is ordered to receive concurrent sentence : a sentence that runs at the same time as another consecutive sentence : a sentence that runs before or after another cumulative sentence : consecutive sentence in this entry ;also : the combination of two or more consecutive sentences death sentence : a sentence condemning the convicted defendant to death de·ter·mi·nate sentence [di-tər-mə-nət-] : a sentence for a fixed rather than indeterminate length of time general sentence : a sentence that does not allocate the punishment imposed for the individual counts on which the defendant was convicted NOTE: General sentences are impermissible. in·de·ter·mi·nate s...
Indecision
Lack of decision lack of settled purpose or of firmness indetermination wavering of mind irresolution vacillation hesitation...
Indeterminable
Not determinable impossible to be determined not to be definitely known ascertained defined or limited...
Indetermined
Undetermined...
Porism
A proposition affirming the possibility of finding such conditions as will render a certain determinate problem indeterminate or capable of innumerable solutions...
Somebody
A person unknown or uncertain a person indeterminate some person...
Something
Anything unknown undetermined or not specifically designated a certain indefinite thing an indeterminate or unknown event an unspecified task work or thing...
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