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🧪 A chip coating 🥤 Too little filling 🥤 To fill too little
underfill

underfill

6.2
Less filling than required in a container or package
  • noun
  • /ˈʌndərˌfɪl/
translation icon : relleno insuficiente
  • A noticeable underfill in the packaging led to a recall of the product.

Examples

  • The inspector found an underfill in several bottles on the production line.

  • Customers complained about the underfill in their coffee cups at the café.

  • There was an underfill in the container.

  • The technician noted an underfill during the inspection.

  • The inspector found an underfill in several bottles on the production line.

  • A noticeable underfill in the packaging led to a recall of the product.

  • Customers complained about the underfill in their coffee cups at the café.

Antonyms

to overfill
3 3.9

To put too much into something so it spills out

How Full

to overfill
3 3.9
to fill
785 1.0
underfill
6.2
blank space
3 1.6

Surface Forms

underfill singular
underfills plural

Morphology

underfill = fill (transparent) = under + fill

The meaning 'an amount of filling less than required' follows directly from under- (insufficient) + fill.

Etymology

Underfill combines under ('not enough' or 'below') and fill ('to make full'), which gives an easy memory hook: it is a fill that is less than needed. So an underfill is when a bottle, cup, or package is 'not filled enough'.