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lower bound

[ loh-er ]

noun

, Mathematics.
  1. an element less than or equal to all the elements in a given set:

    The numbers 0 and 1 are lower bounds of the set consisting of 1, 2, and 3.



lower bound

  1. A number that is less than or equal to every number in a given set.


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Example Sentences

One focus of Williams’s research is to make lower bounds constructive and concrete—mathematical objects with describable features.

This was a clever way to identify lower bounds on the sizes of anti-isosceles grids with too many points to exhaustively handle.

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