1.
[syn: bounded, delimited]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
bounded \bounded\ adj.
1. having the limits or boundaries established.
Syn: delimited.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. having a defined physical border.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Bound \Bound\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bounded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Bounding.]
[1913 Webster]
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.
[1913 Webster]
Where full measure only bounds excess. --Milton.
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Phlegethon . . .
Whose fiery flood the burning empire bounds.
--Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
2. To name the boundaries of; as, to bound France.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bounded
adj 1: having the limits or boundaries established; "a delimited
frontier through the disputed region" [syn: bounded,
delimited]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
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)