upper bound
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- noun
- Specialized
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- Besides extreme cold, these conditions include an upper bound on the local magnetic field.
- upper bound on the value
- upper bound estimate
- provide an upper bound
Is it a lower or an upper bound or and why?
- Is it a lower or an upper bound or and why?
- NI won't prove that here, instead I'll prove the upper bound, So.
- So what I want you to do, can you write down a lower bound and an upper bound for the world population this morning as measured by the US Census?
- The thing with energy though is that the groundwork is well laid and talking about sort of like the upper bound is well defined.
Examples
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The designer's specifications assign each design variable a lower and upper bound and an allowed tolerance for convergence.
Academic text (1994) -
A loop gain of 0.1, then, is in practice the upper bound for very long-term climate stability.
Blog text (16) -
Generally speaking, the big O is an upper bound on my function, OK?
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You will, you will then form a lower and upper bound on the global problem.
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There is, however, clearly an upper bound beyond which stability declines.
Academic text (1990) -
So the total amortized costs provide an upper bound on the total true costs.
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At a 95 percent confidence interval for the mean, the lower bound was 19.96 and the upper bound was 23.47.
Academic text (2007) -
Various efforts are now in motion to improve the upper bound on the neutron EDM by about two orders of magnitude.
Academic text (2012) -
For analysis, probability values and the midpoint of the lower and upper bounds were converted to ranks.
Academic text (1990) -
The study established an upper bound for the maximum temperature that can be tolerated.
Synonyms
110
3.7
An upper limit on the amount or number allowed
7
3.2
The highest allowed amount or value of something
Antonyms
How High
- Specialized
3
7.2
- Specialized
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7.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a top or maximum limit' is directly derivable from combining 'upper' (toward the top) with 'bound' (limit), so a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a limiting/highest value. This is a standard compositional adjective+noun phrase with similar constructions across languages, although the precise mathematical formalism is domain-specific.
Etymology
Upper bound shows a clear picture: upper means 'top' and bound means 'a limit'. Imagine numbers under an invisible 'ceiling', and the upper bound is that ceiling, so it is a number at or above every number in the set.