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Meaning of "ill-defined" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ILL-DEFINED

ill-defined play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ILL-DEFINED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ill-Defined is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES ILL-DEFINED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Well-defined

In mathematics, an expression is well-defined if it is unambiguous and its objects are independent of their representation. More simply, it means that a mathematical statement is sensible and definite. In particular, a function is well-defined if it gives the same result when the form but not the value of an input is changed. The term well-defined is also used to indicate whether a logical statement is unambiguous, and a solution to a partial differential equation is said to be well-defined if it is continuous on the boundary.

Definition of ill-defined in the English dictionary

The definition of ill-defined in the dictionary is imperfectly defined; having no clear outline.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ILL-DEFINED

ill-advised
ill-advisedly
ill-affected
ill-assorted
ill-behaved
ill-bred
ill-breeding
ill-concealed
ill-conceived
ill-considered
ill-disposed
ill-equipped
ill-fated
ill-favored
ill-favoredly
ill-favoured
ill-favouredly
ill-feeling
ill-fitting
ill-formed

WORDS THAT END LIKE ILL-DEFINED

affined
combined
confined
constrained
contained
destined
determined
inclined
lined
refined
ruined
stained
sustained
trained
ultrarefined
unconfined
undefined
unrefined
user-defined
well-defined

Synonyms and antonyms of ill-defined in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ILL-DEFINED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «ill-defined» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of ill-defined

Translation of «ill-defined» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ILL-DEFINED

Find out the translation of ill-defined to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of ill-defined from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ill-defined» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

边界不清
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mal definida
570 millions of speakers

English

ill-defined
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

बुरा परिभाषित
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غير محددة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

плохо определены
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

mal definida
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অসুস্থ-সংজ্ঞায়িত
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

mal défini
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Didefinisikan dengan jelas
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

schlecht definierten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

曖昧な
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

잘못 정의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gerah ditemtokake
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bệnh được xác định
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தெளிவற்றது
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गैर-परिभाषित
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

kötü tanımlanmış
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

mal definito
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

źle zdefiniowany
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

погано визначені
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

insuficient definite
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ασαφή
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

swak gedefinieerde
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

dåligt definierad
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

dårlig definert
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ill-defined

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ILL-DEFINED»

The term «ill-defined» is regularly used and occupies the 74.684 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ILL-DEFINED» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ill-defined

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ILL-DEFINED»

Discover the use of ill-defined in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to ill-defined and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Practice of Mammography: Pathology - Technique - ...
A nodular density with an entirely or partially ill-defined margin is suspicious for malignancy, especially when spicules are present. The margin of benign lesions is generally smooth and well-defined. There are exceptions, however.
Daniel J. Dronkers, J. H. C. L. Hendriks, 2011
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Atlas of Breast Imaging
The more irregular the shape and ill-defined the margin of a mass, the greater the likelihood of malignancy. Ill-defined masses can be extremely hard to evaluate and are frequently only islands of normal breast tissue. Before suggesting the ...
Daniel B. Kopans, 1999
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Global Burden of Disease and Risk Factors
Percentage of deaths assigned to ill-defined codes III-defined code group Median 25th percentile 75th percentile Maximum Symptoms 4.0 2.1 8.7 44.0 Injury 0.5 0.2 1.3 5.1a Cancer 1.0 0.5 1.5 2.7 Cardiovascular disease 5.3 2.7 7.7 23.4 Total ...
Alan D. Lopez, 2006
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Skill Acquisition in the Complex, Ill-defined Domain of ...
Skill acquisition in the complex, ill-defined domain of leadership: The role of discussion, guidance, and case frequency in case methods of instruction Leaders are constantly faced with difficult organizational problems, framed within chaotic ...
Matthew T. Allen, 2008
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Breast Imaging
Fibroadeno- mas can appear to have ill-defined margins (Fig. 13-76). Many benign lesions appear to have ill-defined margins because they blend seamlessly into normal breast tissue and their margins are actually obscured. A solid mass with ...
Daniel B. Kopans, 2007
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Advances in Intelligent Tutoring Systems
However, Mitrovic & Weerasinghe did not provide the means to identify an example of an ill-defined domain containing well-defined tasks (Mitrovic and Weerasinghe 2009). Therefore, we argue that the domain dimension is debatable, ...
Roger Nkambou, Riichiro Mizoguchi, Jacqueline Bourdeau, 2010
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Artificial Intelligence in Education: Building Technology ...
AIED Ill-Defined AI Supported Educational systems have made great strides in recent years both as research tools and teaching applications. Most of the AIED research and development to this point have been in well-defined domains such as ...
Rosemary Luckin, Kenneth R. Koedinger, Jim E. Greer, 2007
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Early Breast Cancer: From Screening to Multidisciplinary ...
Virtually all circumscribed masses that represent invasive carcinoma will have ill- defined margins; only a few benign lesions will show this feature. Circumscribed masses with margins that are mostly well-defined but with a portion that is ...
Guidubaldo Querci della Rovere, Ruth Warren, John R. Benson, 2005
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Handbook of Human Intelligence
These three examples of problems with ill-defined problem spaces provide only a minimal sampling of the problems of this kind that have been studied. They are sufficient, however, to permit a contrast to the kind of problem considered earlier,  ...
Robert J. Sternberg, 1982
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Encyclopedia of Creativity
Mark A. Runco, Steven R. Pritzker. duction process are subgoals. Some authors have ar- gued that even in dealing with ill-defined problems, solvers use heuristics not unlike those that they use for well-defined problems, such as subgoaling.
Mark A. Runco, Steven R. Pritzker, 1999

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ILL-DEFINED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term ill-defined is used in the context of the following news items.
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Time for radical action on our failing prisons | Letters | Society | The …
... education in every possible subject, in the hope that the prisoner will change in some ill-defined way. But nothing will alter if we demonstrate ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Obama exposes Iran critics: Netanyahu and the GOP work to get …
What most of his critics seem to favor is some ill-defined sanctions regime that, if pursued enthusiastically, will force Iran to give up its nuclear ... «Salon, Jul 15»
3
Reddit kills 'unfettered free speech' with half-hearted censorship
At the moment, the policy changes seem ill-defined and rather fluid, but this is part of the reason for the AMA. We are assured that "before we ... «BetaNews, Jul 15»
4
Road policy up for repairs - Mountain View Telegraph
Everything from typographical errors to the discussion of ill-defined passages were discussed with decisions made as to changes, and ... «Mountain View Journal, Jul 15»
5
Institutional custom solutions may grow more than US$1 trillion in …
"For such an ill-defined discipline, custom solutions have the potential to upend decades-old practices of asset managers and investment ... «The Asset, Jul 15»
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Maryland facing backlog of 30,000 asbestos cases | Legal News Line
In his memorandum, Glynn wrote that the court has little faith that the “ill-defined proposal of the movants would improve the operation of the ... «Legal News Line, Jul 15»
7
TTIP news, and whether the UK should encourage big business to …
... of investor-led claims, heard by corporate lawyers, with somewhat ill-defined rules as to what does or does not justify legitimate state action. «UK Human Rights Blog, Jul 15»
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Analysis: How much does the UK spend abroad on 'climate finance'?
Climate finance continues to be relatively ill-defined term, which the banks are endeavouring to clarify. In 2014, controversy flared when it ... «Carbon Brief, Jul 15»
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'I have two jobs': Americans respond to Jeb Bush's call to work …
“The context of work seems to be ill-defined,” the events planner, who works 40 to 45 hours a week in his “primary” position, reflected. Ramsdell ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Michael Gove could be a great Minister of Justice - but only if he …
Gove's first job in government was to fight the education “blob”, an ill-defined but powerful body of teachers, academics and bureaucrats which ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»

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