well-founded in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

Translations for well-founded in the English»French Dictionary

well-founded ADJ

well-founded rumour, assumption:

well-founded

fondé

Translations for well-founded in the French»English Dictionary

consistant (consistante) [kɔ̃sistɑ̃, ɑ̃t] ADJ

1. consistant (copieux):

consistant (consistante) repas

substantial

consistant (consistante) plat

nourishing

consistant (consistante) augmentation, investissement

substantial

2. consistant (épais):

consistant (consistante) sauce, peinture

thick

3. consistant (solide):

consistant (consistante) livre

with some substance attr, après n

consistant (consistante) argument

solid

4. consistant (fondé):

consistant (consistante) rumeur

well-founded

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mes craintes étaient tout à fait fondées

my fears were well founded

well-founded in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for well-founded in the English»French Dictionary

well-founded ADJ

well-founded

légitime

Translations for well-founded in the French»English Dictionary

consistant(e) [kɔ̃sistɑ̃, ɑ̃t] ADJ

1. consistant (épais):

consistant(e)

thick

2. consistant inf (substantiel):

consistant(e)

substantial

3. consistant (fondé):

consistant(e)

well-founded

I.fondé(e) [fɔ̃de] ADJ

être bien fondé crainte, critique, confiance

to be fully justified

être bien fondé opinion

to be well-founded

être bien fondé pressentiment

to be well-grounded

être fondé à faire qc

to have grounds for doing sth

II.fondé(e) [fɔ̃de] N m(f)

fondé de pouvoir

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Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

The existence of a variant proves the termination of a while loop in a computer program by well-founded descent.

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The appearance, however, of some of his pictures in good condition has shown that his fame as a brilliant colourist was well-founded.

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They are viewed as well-founded and in agreement with the principles of faith, but not theologically certain.

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A well-founded relation is characterized by the existence of a minimal element of every non-empty subset of its domain.

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On par with induction, well-founded relations also support construction of objects by transfinite recursion.

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A well-founded partial order is defined on the structures (sublist for lists and subtree for trees).

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In order theory, a partial order is called well-founded if the corresponding strict order is a well-founded relation.

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Functional programming limited to well-founded recursion with a few other constraints is called total functional programming.

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A basic property of a well-founded relation is that it has no infinite descending chains.

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Most kernel algorithms are based on convex optimization or eigenproblems and are statistically well-founded.

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