Adjective

Familiar, famous, renowned or widely known.

* , chapter=15

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Edward Churchill still attended to his work in a hopeless mechanical manner like a sleep-walker who walks safely on a well-known round. But his Roman collar galled him, his cossack stifled him, his biretta was as uncomfortable as a merry-andrew's cap and bells.}}

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Philip J. Bushnell

, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance , passage=Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.}}

(computing, not comparable) Generally recognised; reserved for some usual purpose.

* 1972 , Vint Cerf, Jon Postel, RFC 322 - Well known socket numbers

We would like to catalog other sockets which are supposed to be well-known

* 2003 , John Mueller, .NET development security solutions

If the call to this function fails, you can assume the SID was invalid — even if it's a well-known SID.

* 2007 , Larry L Peterson, Bruce S Davie, Computer networks: a systems approach

A common approach is for the server to accept messages at a well-known port.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(archaic) high, lofty; towering; prominent.

noteworthy, remarkable, great

His eminent good sense has been a godsend to this project.

of a person, distinguished, important, noteworthy

In later years, the professor became known as an eminent historian.