unknowns
Sayun-NOHNZUS/ʌnˈnoʊnz/UK/ʌn(ˈn)əʊnz/
- 1Plural of unknown.
Scientists must account for several unknowns when modeling the climate.
The contract left a few critical unknowns that the lawyers wanted clarified.
Note
An -s plural that only the noun can take. The adjective unknown, as in an unknown author, never inflects, and neither does the past participle of the verb unknow, which shares its spelling. The plural covers three kinds of thing: the variables of algebra (solve for two unknowns, x and y); facts not yet known; and people of no identity, as in a cast of unknowns.
unknowns is a form of unknown
unknown, noun: A thing, place, or situation about which nothing is known; a fact that has not yet been discovered. Full entry
- Forms
- unknownunknowns plural
- Spelling
- unknown → unknowns: add -s
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