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noun Mathematics.

an upper bound that is less than or equal to all the upper bounds of a particular set. 3 is the least upper bound of the set consisting of 1, 2, 3.Abbreviation: lub

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Also called supremum.

Words nearby least upper bound

least resistance, line of, least sandpiper, least shrew, least significant digit, least squares, least upper bound, leastways, least weasel, leastwise, least-worst, leat

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That act forever sealed his feeling for the Chief, bound it up with the war, with violence, with the gun.
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Bound together by mutual distrust, both sides end up lashing themselves to the mast of rigid law.
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If only Sulzberger had managed to keep a zipped upper lip while leaving the dirty work to anonymous underlings.
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“Perhaps you do not speak my language,” she said in Urdu, the tongue most frequently heard in Upper India.
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On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.
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A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
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It is to be remembered, however, that a few of these bacteria may reach the sputum from the upper air-passages.
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