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Unknown quantity

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unknownnoun(sometimes postpositive) Not known; unidentified; not well known.
mysterynounSomething secret or unexplainable; an unknown.
something or othernounSomething unspecified or indeterminate, or whose name is forgotten or immaterial.
person unknownnoun(law, criminology) An individual yet to identified.
mystery bagnounA bag whose contents are unknown.
unmysterynoun(rare) Lack of mystery.
incognitanounA woman who is unknown or in disguise.
randomnounA roving motion; course without definite direction; lack of rule or method; chance.
darknessnoun(uncountable) The state of being dark; lack of light; the absolute or comparative absence of light.
closed booknoun(idiomatic) A person or thing that cannot be easily understood; someone or something incomprehensible or puzzling.
no-namenounLacking a recognizable name, identity, or reputation; not noteworthy.
hinterlandnounThe land immediately next to, and inland from, a coast.
dimensionless quantitynoun(physics) a quantity lacking dimension, a pure number.
something-somethingnounSomething that has no name or that one would prefer not to name.
nullnounA non-existent or empty value or set of values.
somewhereIn an uncertain or unspecified location.
obscuritynounThe state of being unknown; a thing that is unknown.
noumenonnoun(from Kantian philosophy on) A thing as it is independent of any conceptualization or perception by the human mind, postulated by practical reason but existing in a condition which is in principle unknowable and unexperienceable.
question marknoun(typography) The punctuation mark "?", used at the end of a sentence to indicate a question.
anonymitynoun(uncountable) The quality or state of being anonymous (nameless or unidentified).

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