[1550–60; un-1 + handled]This word is first recorded in the period 1550–60. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: coach, haul, residual, section, verticalun- is a prefix meaning “not,” freely used as an English formative, giving negative oropposite force in adjectives and their derivative adverbs and nouns (unfair; unfairly; unfairness; unfelt; unseen; unfitting; unformed; unheard-of; un-get-at-able), and less freely used in certain other nouns (unrest; unemployment)
Examples of 'unhandled' in a sentence
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Such situations, if unhandled, may lead to system failures that in some cases can have catastrophic consequences.
Joanna Strug 2016, 'Mutation Testing Approach to Negative Testing', Journal of Engineeringhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/6589140. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
For example, if an expression can be typed without an _exn_ effect, then it will never throw an unhandled exception.
Daan Leijen 2014, 'Koka: Programming with Row Polymorphic Effect Types', Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Sciencehttp://arxiv.org/pdf/1406.2061v1. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Such networks may experience threats which are launched by exploitation of vulnerabilities that are left unhandled during the testing phases.
Vishal Sharma, Kyungroul Lee, Soonhyun Kwon, Jiyoon Kim, Hyungjoon Park, Kangbin Yim,Sun-Young Lee 2017, 'A Consensus Framework for Reliability and Mitigation of Zero-Day Attacks in IoT',Security and Communication Networkshttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/4749085. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)