well-behaved
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5.5
- adjective
- /ˌwɛl bɪˈheɪvd/
- Specialized
:
bien comportado
- Wage contracts are more closely linked to NGDP growth than inflation, which is why wage growth stayed well-behaved in 2008.
Examples
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When a robots.txt file is present, well-behaved web crawlers will stop copying the page.
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There's some well behaved, well known friction between the inside of the hollow cylinder and the outside of the inner cylinder.
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And what we mean by that is that the wave is well behaved in space.
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And then the tricky bit is you want smooth solutions, well behaved solutions.
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Arrows represent the expected data flow for a well-behaved virus scanner.
Academic text (2011) -
The equations of motion are perfectly well-behaved for a two-body problem.
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While Malaysian inflation seems well-behaved and is growing around 2%, the GDP deflator tells a completely different story.
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Apoptosis is such an orderly and well-behaved process that it is widely recognized as an adaptation.
Academic text (2002) -
These observations are consistent with the premise that BSA is a well-behaved material for skimming studies in saltwater.
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The equations of motion are perfectly well-behaved for a two-body problem.
Antonyms
How Predictable
- Specialized
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5.5
358
2.7
189
2.5
96
4.7
163
4.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
well-behaved = well-behave (semi-transparent) = well + behave + ed
While the construction is clear, the technical meaning in computing or engineering contexts may not be immediately obvious to all learners.
Etymology
Well-behaved comes from the two parts well ('in a good way') and behave ('act'), so it literally means 'act in a good or proper way'. In computing, maths, or engineering we call a program or system well-behaved when it 'acts' reliably and predictably, following the expected rules.