"unspecified" meaning in English

See unspecified in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ʌnˈspɛ.sɪ.faɪd/
Etymology: From un- + specified. Etymology templates: {{af|en|un-|specified|id1=negative}} un- + specified Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} unspecified (not comparable)
  1. Not specified; not thoroughly explained or detailed; not adequately commented. Tags: not-comparable Translations (not specified): неустановен (neustanoven) (Bulgarian), uspecificeret (Danish), täsmentämätön (Finnish), yksilöimätön (Finnish), meghatározatlan (Hungarian), meg nem határozott (Hungarian), nem meghatározott (Hungarian), uspesifisert (Norwegian Bokmål), uspesifisert (Norwegian Nynorsk), ospecificerad (Swedish)
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          "text": "Ranicide in rats was found to be reduced by injection of noradrenaline into the hypothalamus, as was muricide behaviour (Bandler, 1970).[…]Other sites in the unspecified ‘ventral midbrain’ were also found (Bandler, 1971) at which noradrenaline administration in crystalline form served to facilitate predatory aggression (ranicide and muricide).",
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          "ref": "2008, Transparency, Information and Communication Technology: Social Responsibility and Accountability in Business and Education:",
          "text": "Obviously, we must reject the existence of an unqualified or unspecified right to know. If the right to know did not require disclosure of only specific (types of) data or information, a person could be said to have a right to know just anything whatsoever.",
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          "ref": "2020, Paul Krugman, Arguing with Zombies:",
          "text": "Howard Gleckman of the Tax Policy Center calls these unspecified sources of revenue “mystery meat,” and strongly suggests that nothing like this would actually happen.",
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          "sense": "not specified",
          "word": "täsmentämätön"
        },
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "not specified",
          "word": "yksilöimätön"
        },
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
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        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "not specified",
          "word": "meg nem határozott"
        },
        {
          "code": "hu",
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          "sense": "not specified",
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      "sense": "not specified",
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      "sense": "not specified",
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    },
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      "lang": "Finnish",
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    },
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    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "not specified",
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    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "not specified",
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    },
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      "sense": "not specified",
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      "sense": "not specified",
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