well-known

adjectif

1. 1

   Familiar, famous, renowned, noted or widely known.

   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.

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

   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.

2. 2

   Generally recognized; reserved for some usual purpose.

   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.

Formes

comparatif

better-known, more well-known

superlatif

best-known, most well-known