overbound

Meanings

1. simple past and past participle of overbind

1. To leap over.
2. To provide an upper bound to.
3. To specify or use boundaries that are too large; to have boundaries that encompass more than the entirety of an entity.

1. 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.

Etymology

From over- + bound.