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underflowing

underflowing is the present participle and gerund 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 underflowing

What is underflowing the present participle and gerund of?
Underflowing is the present participle and gerund of underflow.

Words near underflowing in the dictionary

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

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