preordained

English

Verb

preordained

  1. simple past and past participle of preordain

Adjective

preordained (not comparable)

  1. determined in advance; predestined
    Synonyms: fateful, foreordained; see also Thesaurus:fated
    • 2011 November 23, Benjamin Wallace, “The Rise and Fall of Bitcoin”, in Wired‎[1], San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2 January 2025:
      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.

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