UPPER BOUND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does upper bound mean? 

• UPPER BOUND (noun)
  The noun UPPER BOUND has 1 sense:

1. (mathematics) a number equal to or greater than any other number in a given set

  Familiarity information: UPPER BOUND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UPPER BOUND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(mathematics) a number equal to or greater than any other number in a given set

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Hypernyms ("upper bound" is a kind of...):

bound; boundary; edge (a line determining the limits of an area)

Domain category:

math; mathematics; maths (a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement)

 Context examples 

More precisely, it is used to describe an asymptotic upper bound for the magnitude of a function in terms of another, usually simpler, function.

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