unbound
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʌnˈbaʊnd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -aʊnd
Verb
unbound
- simple past and past participle of unbind
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Translations
Adjective
unbound (not comparable)
- Not bound; not tied up.
- The hostages' hands were left unbound.
- Without a binding.
- an unbound book
- 1880, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, page 40:
- Beneath an old ebony table were two long carved oak chests. I lifted the lid of one, and at the top was a once-white surplice covered with dust, and beneath was a mass of tracts — Commonwealth Quartos, unbound — a prey to worms and decay.
- (nuclear physics, of an atomic nucleus) Lying beyond the proton or neutron drip line; having a negative particle separation energy; capable of decaying by the spontaneous exothermic emission of one or more nucleons.
- Helium-2 is unbound, as it is energetically favorable for it to split into two separate protons.
Derived terms
Translations
not bound or tied up
without a binding
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