1. overbound - Noun
2. overbound - Verb
overbound
simple past and past participle of overbind
(transitive, archaic) To leap over.
(mathematics) To provide an upper bound to.
To specify or use boundaries that are too large; to have boundaries that encompass more than the entirety of an entity.
overbound (plural overbounds)
(transitive, mathematics, signal processing) 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.