bounded

bound ¹  (bound)

intr.v. bound·ed, bound·ing, bounds

1. To leap forward or upward; spring.

2. To progress by forward leaps or springs.

3. To bounce; rebound.

n.

1. A leap; a jump.

2. A rebound; a bounce.

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[French bondir, to bounce, from Old French, to resound, perhaps from Vulgar Latin *bombitre, from Latin bombitre, to hum, from bombus, a humming sound, from Greek bombos.]

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bound ²  (bound)

n.

1. A boundary; a limit. Often used in the plural: Our joy knew no bounds. Your remarks exceed the bounds of reason.

2. bounds The territory on, within, or near limiting lines: the bounds of the kingdom.

v. bound·ed, bound·ing, bounds

v.tr.

1. To set a limit to; confine: a high wall that bounded the prison yard; lives that were bounded by poverty.

2. To constitute the boundary or limit of: a city park that was bounded by busy streets.

3. To identify the boundaries of; demarcate.

v.intr.

To border on another place, state, or country.

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[Middle English, from Old French bodne, bonde and Anglo-Norman bunde, both from Medieval Latin bodina, of Celtic origin.]

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bound ³  (bound)

v.

Past tense and past participle of bind.

adj.

1. Confined by bonds; tied: bound and gagged hostages.

2. Being under legal or moral obligation: bound by my promise.

3. Equipped with a cover or binding: bound volumes.

4. Predetermined; certain: We're bound to be late.

5. Determined; resolved: She's bound to be mayor.

6. Linguistics Being a form, especially a morpheme, that cannot stand as an independent word, such as a prefix or suffix.

7. Constipated.

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bound ⁴  (bound)

adj.

Headed or intending to head in a specified direction: commuters bound for home; a south-bound train.

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[Alteration of Middle English boun, ready, from Old Norse binn, past participle of ba, to get ready; see bheu- in Indo-European roots.]

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bounded [ˈbaʊndɪd]

adj Maths

1. (Mathematics) (of a set) having a bound, esp where a measure is defined in terms of which all the elements of the set, or the differences between all pairs of members, are less than some value, or else all its members lie within some other well-defined set

2. (Mathematics) (of an operator, function, etc.) having a bounded set of values

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

bounded - having the limits or boundaries established; "a delimited frontier through the disputed region" delimited finite - bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent