Dictionary
Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
undercount en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *-tér
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Indo-European *h₂én
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰi
?
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí
Proto-Indo-European *-ér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér
Proto-Germanic *under
Proto-West Germanic *undar
Old English under-
Middle English under-
English under-
Latin computō
Anglo-Norman counterbor.
Middle English counten
English count
English undercount
From under- + count.
Meanings
-
An incorrect count that is too low.
And that, Lady Darvish thought, was almost certainly an undercount.
2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 209:
Forms
Antonyms
overcount
undercount en · VERB
Pronunciation
Etymology
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₁én
Proto-Indo-European *-tér
Proto-Indo-European *h₁entér
Proto-Indo-European *h₂én
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-?
Proto-Indo-European *-dʰi
?
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰí
Proto-Indo-European *-ér
Proto-Indo-European *(H)n̥dʰér
Proto-Germanic *under
Proto-West Germanic *undar
Old English under-
Middle English under-
English under-
Latin computō
Anglo-Norman counterbor.
Middle English counten
English count
English undercount
From under- + count.
Meanings
-
To count to an insufficient degree; to count one thing disproportionately less than another
But minority stations have claimed that they are undercounted in the new system, in part because Arbitron has struggled to include representative numbers of young and minority listeners in its sample.
2009 January 8, Brian Stelter, “Arbitron Settles Lawsuit Alleging Bias in Radio Ratings System”, in New York Times:
Forms
Relateds
overcount
Translations (2)
es contar de menos (to count to an insufficient degree) · vi tính thiếu (to count to an insufficient degree)