Boundedness, bounded, or unbounded may refer to:

Economics

* Bounded rationality, the idea that human rationality in decision-making is bounded by the available information, the cognitive limitations, and the time available to make the decision * Bounded emotionality, a concept within communication theory that stems from emotional labor and bounded rationality

Linguistics

* Boundedness (linguistics), whether a situation has a clearly defined beginning or end

Mathematics

* Boundedness axiom, the axiom schema of replacement * Bounded deformation, a function whose distributional derivatives are not quite well-behaved-enough to qualify as functions of bounded variation, although the symmetric part of the derivative matrix does meet that condition * Bounded growth, occurs when the growth rate of a mathematical function is constantly increasing at a decreasing rate * Bounded operator, a linear transformation ''L'' between normed vector spaces for which the ratio of the norm of ''L''(''v'') to that of ''v'' is bounded by the same number over all non-zero vectors ''v'' ** Unbounded operator, a linear operator defined on a subspace * Bounded poset, a partially ordered set that has both a greatest and a least element * Bounded set, a set that is finite in some sense ** Bounded function, a function or sequence whose possible values form a bounded set :* Bounded set (topological vector space), a set in which every neighborhood of the zero vector can be inflated to include the set :* Bounded variation, a real-valued function whose total variation is bounded :* Bounded pointer, a pointer that is augmented with additional information that enable the storage bounds within which it may point to be deduced

Other uses

*''Unbounded'', a 2023 book by Australian author Maria Thattil

Economics

Linguistics

Mathematics

Other uses

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