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Vinony

underflow

noun

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Wiktionary

noun

Etymology: From under- + flow, modelled on overflow.

  1. A current flowing below the surface.
  2. A condition in which the value of a computed quantity is smaller than the smallest non-zero value that can be physically stored; usually treated as an error condition.
  3. The error condition that results from an attempt to retrieve an item from an empty stack.

verb

Etymology: From under- + flow, modelled on overflow.

  1. To trigger the condition in which the value of a computed quantity is smaller than the smallest non-zero value that can be physically stored.
  2. To trigger the error condition resulting from attempting to retrieve a value from an empty stack.

    “Upon an attempt to pop an empty stack, the stack underflows […]”