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preordained en · ADJ

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) determined in advance; predestined
    • The difficulty of each puzzle would increase as the number of miners increased, which would keep production to one block of transactions roughly every 10 minutes. In addition, the size of each block bounty would halve every 210,000 blocks—first from 50 bitcoins to 25, then from 25 to 12.5, and so on. Around the year 2140, the currency would reach its preordained limit of 21 million bitcoins. 2011 November 23, Benjamin Wallace, “The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Jan 2025:

Deriveds

unpreordained

Synonyms

destined · predevote · doomed · fated · fatidic · bashert · weird · foreordained · foreordained · predestined · preordained · fateful · fateful

Translations (6)

pl przesądzony (predestined) · la fātālis (predestined) · fa مقدر (predestined) · vi an bài (predestined) · ru предопределенный (predestined) · pl wyznaczony (predestined)

preordained en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, participle, past) simple past and past participle of preordain
    form of preordain