to move by leaps; leap; jump; spring: The colt bounded through the meadow.
2.
to rebound, as a ball; bounce: The ball bounded against the wall.
noun
3.
a leap onward or upward; jump.
4.
a rebound; bounce.
Origin: 1545–55; < Middle French bond a leap, bondir to leap, orig. resound ≪ Vulgar Latin *bombitīre for *bombitāre to buzz, whiz (Latin bomb(us) (see bomb) + -it- intensive suffix + -ā- thematic vowel + -re infinitive suffix)
beyond the official boundaries, prescribed limits, or restricted area: The ball bounced out of bounds.
b.
forbidden; prohibited: The park is out of bounds to students.
Origin: 1175–1225; Middle English bounde < Anglo-French; Old French bone, bonde, variant of bodne < Medieval Latin budina, of uncertain origin; compare bourn2
(of a set) having a bound, esp where a measure is defined in terms of which all the elements of the set, or the differences between all pairs of members, are less than some value, or else all its members lie within some other well-defined set
2.
(of an operator, function, etc) having a bounded set of values
theory In domain theory, a subset S of a cpo X is bounded if there exists x in X such that for all s in S, s <= x. In other words, there is some element above all of S. If every bounded subset of X has a least upper bound then X is boundedly complete. ("<=" is written in LaTeX as \subseteq). (1995-02-03)