UNDEFINED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does undefined mean? 

• UNDEFINED (adjective)
  The adjective UNDEFINED has 1 sense:

1. not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished

  Familiarity information: UNDEFINED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNDEFINED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished

Synonyms:

undefined; vague

Context example:

a vague uneasiness

Similar:

indefinable; undefinable (not capable of being precisely or readily described; not easily put into words)

Also:

indefinite (vague or not clearly defined or stated)

Antonym:

defined (clearly characterized or delimited)

 Context examples 

Additional undefined device size not represented in the GUDID clinically relevant size list.

(Device Size Text, Food and Drug Administration)

A special value that may be stored in some database columns to represent an unknown, missing, not applicable, or undefined value.

(Null, NCI Thesaurus)

It was deepened, if it were changed at all; but it was as undefined as ever, and addressed me like a strain of sorrowful music faintly heard in the night.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Currently undefined.

(Enhancing Accessibility to Health Care, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon administration, the autologous sarcoma lysate-pulsed dendritic cell vaccine exposes the immune system to an undefined amount of sarcoma-type tumor associated antigens (TAA), which may result in the induction of both specific anti-tumoral cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) and antibody-dependent responses against the sarcoma TAA-expressing cells, resulting in sarcoma cell lysis.

(Autologous Sarcoma Lysate-pulsed Dendritic Cell Vaccine, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon intradermal administration, the autologous glioma cell lysate exposes the immune system to an undefined amount of glioma-type tumor associated antigens (TAA), which may result in the induction of both specific anti-tumoral cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) and antibody-dependent responses against the glioma TAA-expressing cells, resulting in glioma cell lysis.

(Autologous Glioma Cell Lysate, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon intradermal administration, the autologous sarcoma cell lysate exposes the immune system to an undefined amount of sarcoma-type tumor associated antigens (TAA), which may result in the induction of both specific anti-tumoral cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) and antibody-dependent responses against the sarcoma TAA-expressing cells, resulting in sarcoma cell lysis.

(Autologous Sarcoma Cell Lysate, NCI Thesaurus)

To Catherine's simple feelings, this odd sort of reserve seemed neither kindly meant, nor consistently supported; and its unkindness she would hardly have forborne pointing out, had its inconsistency been less their friend; but Anne and Maria soon set her heart at ease by the sagacity of their I know what; and the evening was spent in a sort of war of wit, a display of family ingenuity, on one side in the mystery of an affected secret, on the other of undefined discovery, all equally acute.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Mr. Yates might consider it only as a vexatious interruption for the evening, and Mr. Rushworth might imagine it a blessing; but every other heart was sinking under some degree of self-condemnation or undefined alarm, every other heart was suggesting, What will become of us? what is to be done now?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

My reflections were too undefined and fragmentary to merit record: I hardly yet knew where I was; Gateshead and my past life seemed floated away to an immeasurable distance; the present was vague and strange, and of the future I could form no conjecture.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)