underrun

plural underruns

1. accountingA condition in which fewer products are delivered or produced than had been ordered.
2. computingA condition in which the read/write buffer is fed with data at a slower rate than required; a buffer underrun.

present singular third person underruns · participle present underrunning · past underran

1. To run or pass under.

   He spoke fast, with the uneasy tone that so often underran his words.

   1904, Katherine Cecil Thurston, The Masquerader, page 26

2. nauticalTo pass along and under, e.g. a cable, for the purpose of taking it in or examining it.
3. nauticalTo separate the parts of (a tackle) and put them in order.