BOUNDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bounded mean? 

• BOUNDED (adjective)
  The adjective BOUNDED has 1 sense:

1. having the limits or boundaries established

  Familiarity information: BOUNDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOUNDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having the limits or boundaries established

Synonyms:

bounded; delimited

Context example:

a delimited frontier through the disputed region

Similar:

finite (bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent)

Derivation:

boundedness (the quality of being finite)

 Context examples 

The fleshy part of the face bounded by the eyes, nose, ear, and jaw line.

(Cheek, NCI Thesaurus)

Alpha-naphthyl butyrate covers the external surface of the plasma membrane in monocytes and membrane-bounded intracellular organelles in lymphocytes.

(Alpha-naphthyl Butyrate Esterase, NCI Thesaurus)

A solid with a shape bounded by a circular base converging upon a single vertex.

(Cone Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

A solid bounded by a circular base converging upon a single vertex and intended for administration to the teeth and gingiva in the oral cavity.

(Dental Cone Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

It is composed of a fibrous outer layer bounded by smooth muscle, the submucosa, and the mucosa.

(Gastric Tissue, NCI Thesaurus)

Cells of the higher organisms, containing a true nucleus bounded by a nuclear membrane.

(Eukaryotic Cell, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Then he bounded into the forest and looked about right and left.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

But as she opened the gate the Lion gave a loud roar and bounded at her so fiercely that the Witch was afraid, and ran out and shut the gate again.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The bubbles rubbed and bounded like tiny balloons against his cheeks and eyes as they took their upward flight.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He had bounded across the room and had wrenched a small phial from her hand.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)