well-known

comparative better-known · comparative more well-known · superlative best-known · superlative most well-known · alternative well known · alternative wellknown

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

   There are a number of diseases that are considered to be universally fatal. AIDS and rabies encephalitis are well-known examples.

   1997, Norris McWhirter (editor), The Guinness Book of World Records 1997, page 29

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   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.

   1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XV, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC

   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.

   2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist

   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.

   2017 June 9, Susan Scutti, “Study links mosquito spray to delayed motor skills in babies”, in CNN, archived from the original on 06 Oct 2022

   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.

   2024 November 27, Ben Jones, “Testing trains, tracks and systems”, in RAIL, number 1023, page 33

   Synonyms: noted, twice-told, proverbial · Antonyms: little-known

2. not comparablecomputingGenerally recognized; reserved for some usual purpose.

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

   1972, Vint Cerf, Jon Postel, RFC 322 - Well known socket numbers

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

   2003, John Mueller, .NET development security solutions

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

   2007, Larry L Peterson, Bruce S Davie, Computer networks: a systems approach