underbound
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To provide a lower bound to.
verb
To specify or use boundaries that are too small; to have boundaries that do not encompass the entirety of an entity.
verb
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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)."
- "The corporate limits of a city, therefore, offer a political definition that commonly underbounds the geographic extent of the urban area."
- "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."