Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To run, pass, or go beneath.
- transitive verb Nautical To haul (a line or cable) onto a boat for inspection or repair.
- noun Something that runs under, as.
- noun An amount or a quantity produced that is less than what has been estimated.
- noun The difference between this amount or quantity and what has been estimated.
- noun An undercurrent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An undercurrent.
- To run or pass under; especially (nautical), to pass under, as for the purpose of examining: as, to
underrun a cable (to pass under it in a boat, in order to examine whether any part of it is damaged or entangled); to underrun a fishing-net. - To move under, as a boat when a seine is hauled in over one side of it and paid out over the other.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Naut.) To run or pass under
- transitive verb (Naut.) to lift it up at one end, then walk along shifting one hand after another so that the water will run out.
- transitive verb (Naut.) to separate its parts and put them in order.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun accounting A condition in which fewer products are delivered or produced than had been ordered.
- noun computing A condition in which the read/write
buffer is fed with data at a slower rate than required; a buffer underrun.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The item estimate vs actual is 5% over budget (cost overrun) the project cost is under budget (project cost underrun).
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Again the witnesses confirmed he watched the approaching trailer, and did nothing until the underrun bar was touching his windscreen wipers.
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Understanding the 10th Dimension | Netflow Developments 2009
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Specifically he said the situation is, "a shocking development, both because of the magnitude of the underrun (about 20 percent) and the late date of its discovery."
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