Well-known

/ˌwɛlˈnoʊn/ · adjective

Meaning

Familiar, famous, renowned, noted or widely known..

Definitions by Sense

1. Familiar, famous, renowned, noted or widely known.
2. (computing, not comparable) Generally recognized; reserved for some usual purpose.

Example Sentences

Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.

Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.

At 6 weeks and 9 months, the babies’ motor skills were tested using the Peabody Developmental Motor Scales, a well-known assessment tool that looks at gross, fine and total motor abilities.

Less well-known is NR's High Marnham test track, which occupies part of the former Lancashire, Derbyshire and East Coast Railway (LDECR) Chesterfield-Lincoln line in Nottinghamshire.

We would like to catalog other sockets which are supposed to be well-known

If the call to this function fails, you can assume the SID was invalid — even if it's a well-known SID.

A common approach is for the server to accept messages at a well-known port.

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Word Forms

• better-known
• more well-known
• best-known
• most well-known
• well known
• wellknown

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