known

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Identified as a specific type

   Identified as a specific type; famous, renowned.

   • He was a known pickpocket.
   • Being not knowne, some great persons in the pew I pretended to, and went in, did question my coming in.
2. 2

   Accepted, familiar, researched.

   • At the time, Einstein's theory was unknown to most other scientists.
3. 3

   Any fact or situation which is known or familiar.

   • You have to tell the knowns from the unknowns.
   • The biological dereplication tool may identify major knowns in a mixture, but it may miss novel minor components.
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   1. 4

      A constant or variable the value of which is already determined.

   2. 5

      past participle of know

The neighborhood

• neighborbest-known
• neighborbetter-known
• neighborlesser-known
• neighborlittle-known
• neighborwell-known