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UNDISCOVERED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not yet discovered
Example:
undiscovered islands
Synonyms:
undiscovered; unexplored
Classified under:
Similar:
unknown (not known)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Not discovered
Example:
with earth-based telescopes many stars remain undiscovered
Classified under:
Similar:
undetected (not perceived or discerned)
Context examples:
Data collected by NASA's Juno spacecraft using its Jovian InfraRed Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument point to a new heat source close to the south pole of Io that could indicate a previously undiscovered volcano on the small moon of Jupiter.
(NASA Juno data indicate another possible volcano on Jupiter moon Io, NASA)
Again and again in cases of the most varying sorts—forgery cases, robberies, murders—I have felt the presence of this force, and I have deduced its action in many of those undiscovered crimes in which I have not been personally consulted.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Its productions and features may be without example, as the phenomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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