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well-beˈhaved, ppl. a.
1. Displaying good conduct or manners; decorous.
1598Shakes. Merry W. ii. i. 59 Hee..gaue such orderly and wel-behaued reproofe to al vncomelinesse. 1633Ford 'Tis Pity ii. vi, A very modest welbehau'd young Maide. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 235 His sons were very pretty, wellbehaved youths. 1863Kingsley Water-Bab. iii. 126, I have met one or two creatures like you before, and found them very agreeable and well-behaved.
absol.1828P. Cunningham N.S. Wales (ed. 3) II. 253 To give all due encouragement to the well-behaved.
2. Math. Applied to different entities with varying implications as to their susceptibility to manipulation, as continuity or differentiability (of a function), convergence (of a series).
1939C. B. Boyer Concepts of Calculus vi. 246 Inasmuch as Euler restricted himself to well-behaved functions, he did not become involved in those subtle difficulties connected with the notions of infinity. 1965Patterson & Rutherford Elem. Abstr. Algebra iii. 60 Of the two operations in a ring R, addition is ‘well-behaved’ in that it satisfies the commutative and associative laws and there exist an identity element and inverses... Multiplication is not so well-behaved. 1968Fox & Mayers Computing Methods for Scientists & Engineers i. 13 Since x = 0, and J0(x) is perfectly ‘well-behaved’, then also y′(0) = 0.
3. Of a computer program: communicating with hardware via standard operating system calls rather than directly, and therefore able to be used on different machines.
1984Austral. Microcomputer Mag. Jan. 42/1 The disk drives can read and write IBM-PC format disks, and of several programs tried on the system, those that were ‘well behaved’ worked and those, such as word processors, that tend to directly address the machine's hardware would not always work. 1984Austral. Personal Computer May 65/3 PC mode handles all well-behaved programs... In the case of direct hardware calls, problems usually arise if a ‘not quite IBM-compatible’ machine is used. |