Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

overbound

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: over-bound
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

simple past and past participle of overbind

verb

To leap over.

Archaic; Transitive verb

verb

To provide an upper bound to.

verb

To specify or use boundaries that are too large; to have boundaries that encompass more than the entirety of an entity.

noun

A Gaussian model of the (non-Gaussian) error distribution on a signal, which is conservative enough that the resulting confidence interval is guaranteed to be at least as wide as the actual confidence interval.

Example Sentences

"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)."

Etymology

From over- + bound.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: over

Usage

Inflected Forms

overbounds (present, singular) overbounding (participle, present) overbounded (participle, past) overbounded (past) overbounds (plural)

Antonyms

underbound

Questions

What does overbound mean?: simple past and past participle of overbind
Where does overbound come from?: From over- + bound.

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