Usually means: Limit or constraint on something.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. bound: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bound, bound, bound, bound: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bound, bound, bound, bound: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bound: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bound: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bound, bound: Wordnik
  7. -bound, bound: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. -bound, bound: Wiktionary
  9. -bound, bound: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. -bound, bound: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bound: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. -bound, bound: Dictionary.com
  13. bound (adj.1), bound (adj.2), bound (n.), bound (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bound: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bound (Fringe), Bound (disambiguation), Bound (film), Bound (video game), Bound: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bound: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bound: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bound: Rhymezone
  19. bound: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bound: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. -bound: MyWord.info
  22. bound: Free Dictionary
  23. bound: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  24. bound: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Bound: The Word Detective
  26. -bound, bound: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. bound: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. -bound, bound: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. -bound, bound: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. -bound, bound: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  2. -bound, bound: Idioms

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. A Glossary of Mathematical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bound: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. bound, bound, bound: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bound: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bound: Sports Definitions

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Collectors' Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
adjective:  (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
adjective:  (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
adjective:  (dated) Constipated; costive.
adjective:  Confined or restricted to a certain place.
adjective:  Unable to move in certain conditions.
adjective:  (obsolete) Ready, prepared.
adjective:  Ready to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).
adjective:  (with infinitive) Very likely (to), certain to
noun:  (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
noun:  (mathematics) A value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
verb:  (transitive) To surround a territory or other geographical entity; to form the boundary of.
verb:  (transitive, mathematics) To be the bound of.
noun:  A sizeable jump, great leap.
noun:  A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
noun:  (dated) A bounce; a rebound.
verb:  (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to leap.
verb:  (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.
verb:  (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
noun:  A surname.

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