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underfull en · ADJ · etymology 1

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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- English full English underfull From under- + full.

Meanings

1. Not full enough; not filled to available capacity.
   • Commands forcing a figure in a particular place may create underfull pages […] 2012, Bernice S. Lipkin, LaTeX for Linux: A Vade Mecum, page 68:
   • 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 […] 2014, Inge Li Gørtz, R. Ravi, Algorithm Theory - SWAT 2014: 14th Scandinavian Symposium:

Forms

underfull en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

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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- English full house English underfull From under- + full house.

Meanings

1. A full house that is beaten by someone else's full house.
   • […] 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. 2008, Jeff Hwang, Pot-Limit Omaha Poker: The Big Play Strategy, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 5:

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Antonyms

overfull

Hypernyms

full house · hand