The word "determiner" is correct and usable in written English.
Determiners are words such as articles (a, an, the), possessives (my, your, his, her), demonstratives (this, that, those, these), and quantifiers (all, some, many, few). For example, you could use the sentence "The determiner 'the' is often used before a noun."
April 6, 1870 Clayton, California January 17 , 1946Swarthmore, Pennsylvania Clarence E. McClung, (born April 6, 1870, Clayton, Calif., U.S. died Jan . 17 , 1946Swarthmore, Pa ., American zoologist whose study of the mechanisms of heredity led to his 1901 hypothesis that an extra, or accessory, chromosome was the determiner of sex.
The order in multiple attribution tends to be as follows: determiner; quantifier; adjective of quality; adjective of size, shape, or texture; adjective of colour or material; noun adjunct (if any); head noun.
The use of the first-person-possessive determiner brings to mind the pervasive superstition that everyone has a novel "in them," some inner reserve of pure creative potential awaiting realization and recognition.
For the court to retain its stature as the rightful determiner of constitutional rights, it will need to start functioning as a body of nine and not a body of "gee — I wonder how Justice Kennedy will decide".
In a politically controlled society without access to independent justice, where freedom exists only around profit-making and personal consumer choice, money is more than king — it is the biggest determiner of destiny.
The most important determiner was quickness, the Cowboys believed.
Since then, it has been the sole determiner of what is considered a worthwhile record in the sport.
It's been a promising month, and as Elliotte Friedman pointed out around this time last year, where you're placed at this point in the season is more of a determiner of where you finish than one might suspect.
So … Washoe County has always been the determiner".
(Chris Sherwin, principal of Long Road Sixth-Form College, Cambridge) "We wonder if, in the future, the model adopted by some universities – where candidates are made unconditional offers regardless of their A-level performance – could make students' GCSE profiles the determiner when it comes to admission decisions.
And they are not imposing their own personal minority view with consequences for a woman (and if they are successful in their propaganda, an ensuing child) when it is not their consciences and circumstances which should be the determiner of what happens, but that woman's.
