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harmonically bound

harmonically bound verb: of an input-output pair, to incur a proper subset of constraint violations of a different input-output pair.

Verb

harmonically bound (third-person singular simple present harmonically bounds, present participle harmonically bounding, simple past and past participle harmonically bounded)

  1. (transitive, Optimality Theory) Of an input-output pair, to incur a proper subset of constraint violations of a different input-output pair.
    • {| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"In the example below, β is harmonically bounded by α
  2. This output candidate harmonically bounds all other possible output candidates.

Forms of harmonically bound

third-person singular presentharmonically bounds
present participleharmonically bounding
past participleharmonically bounded
pastharmonically bounded

Words formed from harmonically bound

Questions about harmonically bound

What does harmonically bound mean?
Harmonically bound means of an input-output pair, to incur a proper subset of constraint violations of a different input-output pair.
What part of speech is harmonically bound?
Harmonically bound is a verb.
What is the past tense of harmonically bound?
The past tense of harmonically bound is harmonically bounded.

Words near harmonically bound in the dictionary

  1. harmonica bugs
  2. harmonicaist
  3. harmonicaists
  4. harmonical
  5. harmonically
  6. harmonically bound
  7. harmonicalness
  8. harmonicals
  9. harmonicas
  10. harmonichord
  11. harmonichords

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