UNIDENTIFIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unidentified mean? 

• UNIDENTIFIED (adjective)
  The adjective UNIDENTIFIED has 2 senses:

1. not yet identified

2. being or having an unknown or unnamed source

  Familiarity information: UNIDENTIFIED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNIDENTIFIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not yet identified

Context example:

an unidentified witness

Similar:

unknown (not known)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Being or having an unknown or unnamed source

Synonyms:

nameless; unidentified; unknown; unnamed

Context example:

an unnamed donor

Similar:

anon.; anonymous (having no known name or identity or known source)

 Context examples 

Further study may also provide information that might point to the locations of as yet unidentified additional planets.

(ALMA Discovers Cold Dust Around Nearest Star, ESO)

Irregular-shaped argyrophilic cells which produce histamine, chromogranin A/pancreastatin, and an as yet unidentified peptide hormone.

(Enterochromaffin-Like Cell, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

The cellular functions of these products are currently unidentified or unspecified.

(Gene with Unknown or Unclassified Function, NCI Thesaurus)

This agent may also exert an anabolic or anti-catabolic effect due to as of yet unidentified mechanisms.

(Clenbuterol, NCI Thesaurus)

Also, APS may exert immunostimulatory activities by stimulating B-lymphocytes, activating T-lymphocytes, inducing cytokine production, and activating macrophages and natural killer cells through as of yet unidentified mechanism(s).

(Injectable Astragalus membranaceus Polysaccharide, NCI Thesaurus)

FRAP/mTOR, together with an unidentified kinase, phosphorylates 4E-BP, leading to its dissociation from and activation of eIF-4E.

(eIF4 Regulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The bacterium producing phazolicin is an unidentified species of Rhizobium.

(Scientists discover new antibiotic in tropical forest, National Science Foundation)

Model simulations of global atmospheric chemistry and the losses of CCl4 due to interactions with soil and the oceans pointed to an unidentified ongoing current source of CCl4.

(Ozone-depleting compound persists, NASA)

With this approach, the team was able to classify a previously unidentified material discovered by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft in the moon’s smoggy haze.

(Experiments recreate aromatic flavors of Titan, NASA)

The infrared/gamma-ray connection led the authors to search for new blazar candidates among WISE infrared sources located within the positional uncertainties of Fermi's unidentified gamma-ray objects.

(WISE, Fermi Missions Reveal a Surprising Blazar Connection, NASA)