overbound

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of overbind

present singular third person overbounds · participle present overbounding · participle past overbounded · past overbounded

1. archaictransitiveTo leap over.
2. mathematicsTo 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.

   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).

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

   Antonyms: underbound

plural overbounds

1. computingA 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.