debounded

debounded

English

Adjective

debounded (comparative more debounded, superlative most debounded)

1. (nonstandard, rare) Unbounded; having had its boundaries removed.
   • 2003, Leonard Talmy, Toward a Cognitive Semantics, MIT Press (→ISBN), page 53:

     Thus, in the sentence There are probably (10) miles of pencil in that stationery store, which includes the one-dimensional measure term mile, the concept of a pencil is maintained physically intact, is debounded solely along its long axis, and ...

   • 2013, William Coleman, Alina Sajed, Fifty Key Thinkers on Globalization, Routledge (→ISBN), page 37:

     These risks are 'debounded', respecting neither state boundaries nor particular temporalities, nor are they clearly tied to one actor or source. These risks fall into three categories: financial, ecological and terrorism.

   • 2014, W. Clapton, Risk and Hierarchy in International Society: Liberal Interventionism in the Post-Cold War Era, Springer (→ISBN):

     [...] transcend geographic boundaries and calculable timeframes – they are 'debounded' in the sense that they cannot be limited in terms of time or space. Debounded risks entail possible consequences and effects ...