overbound

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ bound.

Verb

overbound

1. simple past and past participle of overbind

Verb

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

1. (transitive, archaic) To leap over.
2. (mathematics) To provide an upper bound to.
3. To specify or use boundaries that are too large; to have boundaries that encompass more than the entirety of an entity.

   Antonym: underbound

   • 1975, James W. Clay, Douglas Milton Orr, Alfred Wright Stuart, North Carolina Atlas: Portrait of a Changing Southern State, page 58:

     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).

Noun

overbound (plural overbounds)

1. (mathematics, 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