DOCUMENTED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does documented mean? 

• DOCUMENTED (adjective)
  The adjective DOCUMENTED has 2 senses:

1. furnished with or supported by documents

2. established as genuine

  Familiarity information: DOCUMENTED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOCUMENTED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Furnished with or supported by documents

Context example:

the first documented case of shark attack in those waters

Similar:

referenced (supported with written references or citations)

registered ((of a boat or vessel) furnished with necessary official documents specifying ownership etc)

Antonym:

undocumented (lacking necessary documents (as for e.g. permission to live or work in a country))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Established as genuine

Synonyms:

attested; authenticated; documented

Similar:

echt; genuine (not fake or counterfeit)

 Context examples 

Issue associated with the presence of materials, which are not part of the documented device specifications and requirements.

(Foreign Material Present in Medical Device, Food and Drug Administration)

Palaeontologists have documented long-term links between climate and the geographic distributions of major bird groups, but the computer models needed to quantify this link had not been applied to this question until now.

(Past climate change pushed birds from the northern hemisphere to the tropics, University of Cambridge)

Last year, the researchers documented a collapse of bird communities in the Mojave Desert over the last century – 29% of the 135 species that were present 100 years ago are less common and less widespread today.

(Collapse of desert bird populations likely due to heat stress from climate change, National Science Foundation)

Researchers have discovered on the Red Planet the largest fresh meteor-impact crater ever firmly documented with before-and-after images.

(NASA Mars weathercam helps find big new crater, NASA)

It previously found oxygen in Mars’ atmosphere, offered close-up looks at Jupiter and has documented the formation of new stars.

(New Observation of Nearby Star System Confirms Similarity to Ours, VOA)

The link between heart disease and depression is well documented.

(Inflammation links heart disease and depression, University of Cambridge)

Huntington disease is an example of a genetic disorder in which the biological mechanism for this phenomenon has been well documented.

(Genetic Anticipation, NCI Dictionary)

Amplification or overexpression of this gene, has been documented in several solid tumors and cancers, including prostate, bladder, and breast.

(ERBB3 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

"Other work has documented that some songbird species can smell, and prefer their own species' odors, but this is the first example in currently hybridizing species that we know of."

(Scent brings songbirds to the yard, National Science Foundation)

Terms low grade and high grade PIN should be reserved for models in which the epithelial lesion has documented potential to progress to invasive carcinoma.

(Atypical Hyperplasia of the Mouse Prostate Gland, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)