Overflowed vs Underflowed - What's the difference?
overflowed | underflowed |
(overflow)
The spillage resultant from overflow; excess.
Outlet for escape of excess material.
(computing) The situation where a value exceeds the available numeric range.
To flow over the brim of (a container).
To cover with a liquid, literally or figuratively.
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick
To cause an overflow. (rfex)
To flow over the edge of a container.
To exceed limits or capacity.
# (computing, ambitransitive) To exceed the available numeric range.
To be superabundant; to abound.
(underflow)
(computing) A condition in which the value of a computed quantity is smaller than the smallest non-zero value that can be physically stored; usually treated as an error condition
(computing) The error condition that results from an attempt to retrieve an item from an empty stack
(computing) 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.
As verbs the difference between overflowed and underflowed
is that overflowed is (overflow) while underflowed is (underflow).overflowed
English
Verb
(head)overflow
English
Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* overflow holeVerb
(en verb)- The river overflowed the levee.
- The flash flood overflowed most of the parkland and some homes.
- So when they were working that evening at the pumps, there was on this head no small gamesomeness slily going on among them, as they stood with their feet continually overflowed by the rippling clear water
- The waters overflowed into the Ninth Ward.
- The hospital ER was overflowing with flu cases.
- Calculating 255+1 will overflow an eight-bit byte.
- (Rogers)