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BOUNDED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having the limits or boundaries established
Example:
a delimited frontier through the disputed region
Synonyms:
bounded; delimited
Classified under:
Similar:
finite (bounded or limited in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent)
Derivation:
boundedness (the quality of being finite)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb bound
Context examples:
On the three other sides, it is bounded by the ocean.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
It was not thrown away on her, she bounded higher than ever, flew farther down the middle, and was in a continual course of smiles.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The space bounded by the nine microtubule triplets of the centriole.
(Internal Lumen of the Centriole, NCI Thesaurus)
A functional area or structure in a cell that is bounded by a lipid-containing membrane.
(Membranous Cytoplasmic Organelle, NCI Thesaurus)
He bounded back from his perilous foeman; but the other, heated by the bout, rushed madly after him, and so gave the practised wrestler the very vantage for which he had planned.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
God forgive me, how my heart bounded for joy, when hers, which was within touch of it, was breaking with sorrow!
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I indeed perceptibly gained on it, and when, after nearly two days’ journey, I beheld my enemy at no more than a mile distant, my heart bounded within me.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Posteriorly it is bounded by the sacrum and coccyx.
(Pelvic Bone, NCI Thesaurus)
It is bounded laterally by the borders of the quadratus lumborum muscles and extends from the diaphragm to the brim of the true pelvis, where it continues as the pelvic extraperitoneal space.
(Murine Retroperitoneum, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Electron-dense cytoplasmic particles bounded by a single membrane, such as PEROXISOMES, GLYOXYSOMES, and glycosomes.
(Peroxisome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
