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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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