Designed
Designed adjective - Done or made or performed with purpose and intent.
Understood and designed are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Understood" instead the word "Designed" as a verb or an adjective.
Understood
Understood adjective - Implied by or inferred from actions or statements.
Designed and understood are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Designed" instead the word "Understood" as a verb or an adjective.
Both words in one sentence
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Technology designed by singularity class AIs is barely understood within the setting itself.
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Aircraft ejection seats are specifically designed to function with no power source of any kind, and are largely immune to EMP, the phenomenon being reasonably well-understood as an effect of nuclear weapons detonations.
Source: Just Plane Wrong - It's a heavily abbreviated weather report designed to condense as much information as possible into a message that can be transmitted very quickly, and be understood regardless of the reader's native language (which is to say, it's pretty much all data and no language at all).
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