OVERBOUND

Etymology

Verb

overbound

simple past tense and past participle of overbind

Verb

overbound (third-person singular simple present overbounds, present participle overbounding, simple past and past participle overbounded)

(transitive, archaic) To leap over.

(mathematics) To provide an upper bound to.

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

• Antonym: underbound

Noun

overbound (plural overbounds)

(transitive, math, signal processing) 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.

Anagrams

• bound over

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

25 February 2025

ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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