well-behaved
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See also: well behaved
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well-behaved (comparative better-behaved or more well-behaved, superlative best-behaved or most well-behaved)
- Having good manners and acting properly; conforming to standards of good behaviour.
- The boy is well-behaved and is seldom naughty.
- 1842, Thomson, chapter II, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, , →OCLC, page 35:
- How bright were the fire-irons; how clean the Dutch riles round the old-fashioned fire-place, how well-behaved even the cat.
- 1986, InfoWorld, volume 8, number 43, page 69:
- Remember that well-behaved software always keeps its hands off the computer's hardware.
- (mathematics) Having intuitive, easy to handle properties, especially: having a finite derivative of all orders at all points, and having no discontinuities.
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- ill behaved
- (antonym(s) of “in mathematics”): degenerate, pathological
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having good manners and acting properly
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mathematics: having easy to handle properties
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