underfull
English
Etymology 1
Adjective
underfull (comparative more underfull, superlative most underfull)
- Not full enough; not filled to available capacity.
- 2012, Bernice S. Lipkin, LaTeX for Linux: A Vade Mecum, page 68:
- Commands forcing a figure in a particular place may create underfull pages […]
- 2014, Inge Li Gørtz, R. Ravi, Algorithm Theory - SWAT 2014: 14th Scandinavian Symposium:
- 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 […]
Etymology 2
under- + full house
Noun
underfull (plural underfulls)
- (poker) A full house that is beaten by someone else's full house.
- 2008, Jeff Hwang, Pot-Limit Omaha Poker: The Big Play Strategy, Kensington Publishing Corp., →ISBN, page 5:
- […] 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.
Antonyms
Hypernyms
- full house
- hand (poker sense)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
under + -full, partially from German wundervoll; cognate with English wonderful
Adjective
underfull (neuter singular underfullt, definite singular and plural underfulle)
Synonyms
References
- “underfull” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “underfull” in The Ordnett Dictionary