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unknown
[ uhn-nohn ]
adjective
- not known; not within the range of one's knowledge, experience, or understanding; strange; unfamiliar.
- not discovered, explored, identified, or ascertained:
the unknown parts of Antarctica.
- not widely known; not famous; obscure:
an unknown writer.
noun
- a thing, influence, area, factor, or person that is unknown:
the many unknowns in modern medicine; The director cast an unknown in the leading role.
- Mathematics. a symbol representing an unknown quantity: in algebra, analysis, etc., frequently represented by a letter from the last part of the alphabet, as x, y, or z.
unknown
/ ʌnˈnəʊn /
adjective
- not known, understood, or recognized
- not established, identified, or discovered
an unknown island
- not famous; undistinguished
some unknown artist
- unknown quantityunknown quantity a person or thing whose action, effect, etc, is unknown or unpredictable
noun
- an unknown person, quantity, or thing
- maths a variable, or the quantity it represents, the value of which is to be discovered by solving an equation; a variable in a conditional equation
3y = 4x + 5 is an equation in two unknowns
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Derived Forms
- unˈknownness, noun
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Example Sentences
Finally, we plot this percentage of clicks going to unknown search terms by day, allowing you to easily see if there are any big changes coming out of the Googleplex.
Whether Apple’s rumored new premium fitness offering, with virtual workouts and coaching, will appear as part of a bundle is unknown, but it could link with the introduction of the new Apple Watch.
It leads to what Firestein calls “the portal of the unknown.”
Multiple trustworthy outlets, citing unknown people familiar with his comments, report that he’s said some disturbing things about the military and those who serve in uniform.
That means an unknown but likely significant number of those 315,000 applicants will not naturalize soon enough to register by October and vote in November.
While Faal and Njie are in U.S. custody, the whereabouts of the other survivors is unknown.
The police suspect that the other unaccounted for 643,000 bitcoins, were removed from customer accounts via an unknown party.
Former Gov. Jimmy Carter entered the 1976 Presidential campaign as a more or less total unknown.
Until recently, the hacker collective known as Lizard Squad was all but unknown.
I believe that my case is being interfered with by unknown elements inside Iran.
A native of Haarlem on Zandam, the date of her birth being unknown.
Idly his pen traced upon the paper in front of him a large X, the sign of the unknown quantity.
So how do you suppose Yung Pak's mother used to put him to sleep in this land where cradles were unknown?
The French Railroads are better in this respect, and the American cannot be worse, though the fault is not unknown there.
He believed Ramona was dead, buried in some unknown, unconsecrated spot, never to be found; yet he would not give up the search.
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