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known

Pronunciation: /nəʊn/
past participle of know
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Definition of known

adjective

  • recognized, familiar, or within the scope of knowledge:plants little known to western science the known world
  • [attributive] publicly acknowledged to be:a known criminal
  • Mathematics (of a quantity or variable) having a value that can be stated.

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