underflow
Britishnoun
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another word for undercurrent
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computing a condition that occurs when arithmetic operations produce results too small to store in the available register
Example Sentences
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She studied rather their common turn of phrase, its heights and its hollows, its exquisite illogic, its passionate underflow of poetry.
From Old and New Masters by Robert Lynd
This underflow is very characteristic of that part of the State, where it is said, there are many lost rivers flowing beneath the surface, adding one more to the list of Kansas phenomena.
From Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street by Julian Street
Such a paddle it was, too, over the coral, the surf breaking far above our heads, and the underflow, though only a few inches deep, nearly carrying me and the children off our legs!
From A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam' Our Home on the Ocean for Eleven Months by Annie Brassey
Presumably your rainfall is too small for fruit unless you strike underflow below the hardpan.
From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson
Its current, unripplingly smooth, but dimpled ever, and wrinkled with the whirls that mark an underflow deep and shady, bore on our bark.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various
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