unknown

CEFRA2

/ʌn(ˈn)əʊn/

adjective · noun

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Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

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A variable (usually x, y or z) whose value is to be found.
Any thing, place, or situation about which nothing is known; an unknown fact or piece of information.
Not known; unidentified; not well known.

In context

The known must be separated from the unknown.
I suspect that this large and complex military railway system, shrouded in official secrecy for most of its operational life, remains unknown to many people.
Had God walked close beside her into the unknown?

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I suspect that this large and complex military railway system, shrouded in official secrecy for most of its operational life, remains unknown to many people.
2022 January 12, Chris Hegg, “The secret railway in the woods”, in RAIL, number 948, page 34
Had God walked close beside her into the unknown?
1957, Ethel Erford Hewitt, Into the Unknown: An Historical Novel, page 351
I think I learned more from my family than they did from me in the brief idyllic time we spent together. None of them much more than a mile from home, they carried the aura of a close-knit community as a shield against against the unknown.
1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 217
As we know, There are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know There are known unknowns. That is to say We know there are some things We do not know.
2003 [2002], Donald Rumsfeld, edited by Hart Seely, Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald H. Rumsfeld
The other priority is getting people to respond well to interventions, especially changes to routine. This is one of the biggest unknowns in these scenarios, and yet compliance can be the most crucial factor in determining whether an intervention works.
2020 April 9, Ian Boyd, “We practised for a pandemic, but didn’t brace”, in Nature, volume 580, number 7802, page 9

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From Middle English *unknowen, *uniknowen, uniknowe, from Old English unġecnāwen (“unknown”), equivalent to un- + known.