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Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   simple past and past participle of bound form-of, participle, past

Adjective

1. 1
   That can be enclosed within a ball of finite radius.

   "A compact set must be bounded."

2. 2
   That contains a least element, a, and a greatest element, b, such that for all x ∈ X, a ≤ x ≤ b.

Adjective

1. 1
   having the limits or boundaries established wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

boundconditionedconfinedcrampeddelimiteddelimited

Example

More examples

"The ball bounded away into our neighbor's garden."

Related phrases

bounded functionbounded latticebounded rationalitysemi-bounded

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