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underflowed

underflowed is the simple past and past participle of underflow.

Meaning of underflow

Verb

underflow (third-person singular simple present underflows, present participle underflowing, simple past and past participle underflowed)

  1. To trigger the condition in which the value of a computed quantity is smaller than the smallest non-zero value that can be physically stored.
  2. To trigger the error condition resulting from attempting to retrieve a value from an empty stack.
    • Upon an attempt to pop an empty stack, the stack underflows […]2022, Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Introduction to Algorithms, fourth edition, page 255

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Questions about underflowed

What is underflowed the simple past and past participle of?
Underflowed is the simple past and past participle of underflow.

Words near underflowed in the dictionary

  1. underfloor heating
  2. underflooring
  3. underfloorings
  4. underfloors
  5. underflow
  6. underflowed
  7. underflowing
  8. underflows
  9. underflush
  10. underflushes
  11. underfocus

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