Boundedness or bounded 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 See also Boundless (disambiguation) Unbound (disambiguation)