Usually means: Numerical error from very small values.
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  1. underflow: Merriam-Webster
  2. underflow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. underflow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. underflow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Underflow, underflow: Wordnik
  6. underflow: Wiktionary
  7. underflow: Dictionary.com
  8. Underflow: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. underflow: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. underflow: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. underflow: CCI Computer
  3. Webopedia (No longer online)
  4. underflow: Encyclopedia

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  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  2. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Underflow: Science In Your Watershed: Hydrologic Definitions
  4. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (underflow)

noun:  A current flowing below the surface.
noun:  (computing) 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.
noun:  (computing) The error condition that results from an attempt to retrieve an item from an empty stack.
verb:  (computing) 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.
verb:  (computing) To trigger the error condition resulting from attempting to retrieve a value from an empty stack.

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