upper bound
Americannoun
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an element greater than or equal to all the elements in a given set: 3 and 4 are upper bounds of the set consisting of 1, 2, and 3.
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A number that is greater than or equal to every number in a given set.
Example Sentences
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The indictment mentions the nine specific games but says there were more than 100 total bets on Clase and does not posit an upper bound of how often this happened.
From Slate • Nov. 11, 2025
They determined a hypothetical upper bound for Category 5 hurricanes by looking at the expanding range of wind speeds between the lower-category storms.
From Science Daily • Feb. 5, 2024
But the BOJ re-defined 1.0% as a loose "upper bound" rather than a rigid cap and removed a pledge to defend the level with offers to buy unlimited amount of bonds.
From Reuters • Oct. 31, 2023
There is a fundamental upper bound to the luminosity of any celestial object beyond which “the radiation observed to be emitted … would blow up the star,” Arthur Eddington wrote in an influential 1926 paper.
From Scientific American • Aug. 18, 2023
Godwin's Law thus practically guarantees the existence of an upper bound on thread length in those groups.
From The Jargon File, Version 4.2.2, 20 Aug 2000 by Steele, Guy L.
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