underfull
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English
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Adjective
[edit ]underfull (comparative more underfull, superlative most underfull)
- Not full enough; not filled to available capacity.
- 2012, Bernice S. Lipkin, LaTeX for Linux: A Vade Mecum, page 68:
- Commands forcing a figure in a particular place may create underfull pages [...]
- 2014, Inge Li Gørtz, R. Ravi, Algorithm Theory - SWAT 2014: 14th Scandinavian Symposium:
- A bucket is underfull when it contains less than m/2 points. We allow at most one underfull bucket in a group. If there are two underfull buckets in a group, we merge them [...]
Etymology 2
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Proto-Indo-European *-ér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dhér
Proto-Germanic *under
Proto-West Germanic *undar
Old English under-
Middle English under-
English under-
English full house
English underfull
From under- + full house .
Noun
[edit ]underfull (plural underfulls )
- (poker ) A full house that is beaten by someone else's full house.
- 2008, Jeff Hwang, Pot-Limit Omaha Poker: The Big Play Strategy, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 5:
- [...] let's say the flop comes 9-9-8, with the open pair on top. One player has J-T-9-8 for the overfull—9s full of 8s for the nut full house—while another player has 8-8-7-6 for 8s full of 9s and the "underfull". The player with the underfull is both getting smashed and drawing dead.
Antonyms
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[edit ]- full house
- hand (poker sense)
Norwegian Bokmål
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[edit ]under + -full , partially from German wundervoll ; cognate with English wonderful
Adjective
[edit ]underfull (neuter singular underfullt , definite singular and plural underfulle )
Synonyms
[edit ]References
[edit ]- "underfull" in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- "underfull" in The Ordnett Dictionary
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