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Open-ended   Listen
adjective
open-ended  adj.  
1.
Allowing for a spontaneous response; as, an open-ended question. Contrasted to multiple-choice.
2.
Without fixed limits or restrictions, as to tpoic or time; as, an open-ended discussion.
3.
Allowing for future changes or revisions; as, open-ended agreements.





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"Open-ended" Quotes from Famous Books



... lying within the explosive limits, when an explosion will occur. Again, if a gaseous mixture containing less of its combustible constituent than is necessary to attain the lower explosive limit escapes from an open-ended pipe and a light is applied to it, the mixture will not burn as a useful compact flame (if, indeed, it fires at all); if the mixture contains more of its combustible constituent than is required to ...
— Acetylene, The Principles Of Its Generation And Use • F. H. Leeds and W. J. Atkinson Butterfield


Words linked to "Open-ended" :   indeterminate, changeable, changeful, unrestricted


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