What is "boundedness"

boundedness \boundedness\ n. (Math.) the quality of being finite.

Syn: finiteness, finitude.

n. The state or quality of being bounded.

n. the quality of being finite [syn: finiteness, finitude] [ant: infiniteness]

Boundedness or bounded may refer to:

In linguistics, boundedness is an aspectual feature that describes a situation as having a definite beginning or end, or both, not as continuing indefinitely. Thus the clause "I ate fish" describes a unitary, bounded action, as it implies both the beginning ("I started eating fish") and the end ("I finished eating fish"). The clause "I was eating" does not express a bounded action, because the verb form does not express either the beginning or the end.

Similarly, "I set off for home" and "I arrived home" present the action as bounded, whereas "I was going home" and "I was at home" do not.