overbound English

Meaning overbound meaning

What does overbound mean?

overbound verb

— (transitive, archaic) To leap over.

— (mathematics) To provide an upper bound to.

— To specify or use boundaries that are too large; to have boundaries that encompass more than the entirety of an entity.

overbound noun

— (transitive, math, signal processing) A Gaussian model of the (non-Gaussian) error distribution on a signal, which is conservative enough that the resulting confidence interval is guaranteed to be at least as wide as the actual confidence interval.