Underbound

Quick meaning: Underbound is a verb meaning (mathematics) To provide a lower bound to.

Meaning

(mathematics) To provide a lower bound to.

More Meanings

1. To specify or use boundaries that are too small; to have boundaries that do not encompass the entirety of an entity.
2. past participle of underbind

Example Sentences

The corporate limits of a city, therefore, offer a political definition that commonly underbounds the geographic extent of the urban area.

It will be seen that our computation time underbounds his; and that, in fact, we can give a group for which the difference in computation time is arbitrarily large.

When polity underbounds (that is, addresses a subspace within) the space affected by regional policy, the appraisal of development proposals is partial and vital interests go unrepresented.

The Urbanized Area is often considered the best measure of urban size because it neither "underbounds" the city (by taking just the political city) or "overbounds" it (including peripheral, largely rural areas).

Word Forms

• underbounds
• underbounding
• underbounded

Antonyms for underbound

Common opposites include overbound.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include floor, minorize, ceil, denumerate, limit, restrict.

Related Dictionary Tools