3 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bound \Bound\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bounded}; p. pr & vb n.
{Bounding}.]
1. To limit; to terminate; to fix the furthest point of
extension of -- said of natural or of moral objects; to
lie along or form a boundary of to inclose; to
circumscribe; to restrain; to confine.
Where full measure only bounds excess. --Milton.
Phlegethon . . . Whose fiery flood the burning
empire bounds. --Dryden.
2. To name the boundaries of as to bound France.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
bounded
adj : having the limits or boundaries established; "a delimited
frontier through the disputed region" [syn: {delimited}]
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
bounded
In {domain theory}, a subset S of a {cpo} X is
bounded if there exists x in X such that for all s in S, s <=
x. In other words there is some element above all of S. If
every bounded subset of X has a least upper bound then X is
boundedly {complete}.
("<=" is written in {LaTeX} as {\subseteq}).
(1995-02-03)
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