BOUNDS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bounds mean? 

• BOUNDS (noun)
  The noun BOUNDS has 1 sense:

1. the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something

  Familiarity information: BOUNDS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOUNDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

bound; boundary; bounds

Hypernyms ("bounds" is a kind of...):

extremity (the outermost or farthest region or point)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bounds"):

hairline (the natural margin formed by hair on the head)

frontier (an international boundary or the area (often fortified) immediately inside the boundary)

heliopause (the boundary marking the edge of the sun's influence; the boundary (roughly 100 AU from the sun) between the interplanetary medium and the interstellar medium; where the solar wind from the sun and the radiation from other stars meet)

border; borderline; boundary line; delimitation; mete (a line that indicates a boundary)

bourn; bourne (an archaic term for a boundary)

district line (the boundary between two districts)

county line (the boundary between two counties)

city line (the boundary of a city)

border; edge (the boundary of a surface)

end (a boundary marking the extremities of something)

demarcation; demarcation line; limit (the boundary of a specific area)

lineation; outline (the line that appears to bound an object)

surface (the extended two-dimensional outer boundary of a three-dimensional object)

shoreline (a boundary line between land and water)

Instance hyponyms:

Rubicon (the boundary in ancient times between Italy and Gaul; Caesar's crossing it with his army in 49 BC was an act of war)

Moho; Mohorovicic discontinuity (the boundary between the Earth's crust and the underlying mantle)

 Context examples 

"The LSST will be leaps and bounds beyond any other survey we have in terms of capability to find small interstellar visitors," Knight said.

('Oumuamua interstellar object was not an alien spacecraft, National Science Foundation)

A unimodal distribution with confined lower and upper bounds.

(Beta Distribution, NCI Thesaurus)

Your professional reputation is growing by leaps and bounds, and the money you are making is reflecting this growth.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

His hatred of them knew no bounds, and he excelled Martin in denunciation when he turned upon them.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Then he struck gold, invested it, and came up by leaps and bounds.

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

The process of keeping something within particular limits or bounds.

(Constrain, NCI Thesaurus)

A lipid bilayer that bounds a peroxisome.

(Membrane of the Peroxisome, NCI Thesaurus)

My rage was without bounds; I sprang on him, impelled by all the feelings which can arm one being against the existence of another.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Specifies whether the condition is considered part of the historical record of a subject, that is, it did not occur within the bounds of the study.

(Performed Medical Condition Result Medical History Indicator, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)

This was the world, the universe itself, its bounds so near one felt impelled to reach out both arms and push them back.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)