underbound

To provide a lower bound to.

Verb mathematics, sciences

  1. To provide a lower bound to.
    • 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. - 1968, Philip Martin Spira, On the Computational...
  2. To specify or use boundaries that are too small; to have boundaries that do not encompass the entirety of an entity.
    • 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). - 1975,...
    • The corporate limits of a city, therefore, offer a political definition that commonly underbounds the geographic extent of the urban area. - 1978, A.I.D.C. Journal - Volumes 13-15, page 25:
    • 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. - 1994, Environment and...

    Antonyms: overbound

Origin

From under- + bound.

Forms

underbounds underbounding underbounded

Verb form of, participle

  1. past participle of underbind