Definition of underflow in US English:
underflow
nounˈəndərˌfloʊˈəndərˌflō
1An undercurrent.
the powerful underflow around the wreck
Synonyms
undertow, underswell, underdrift, understream, undertide, underrun
- 1.1 A horizontal flow of water through the ground, especially one underneath a riverbed.
2Computing
The generation of a number that is too small to be represented in the device meant to store it.
Example sentencesExamples
- Specifically, it looks for dynamic buffer underflows and detects memory reuse after it is freed.
- At each step of the algorithm, one should rescale constructed arrays to prevent numerical underflow.