undercount

English

Etymology

From under- +‎ count.

Pronunciation

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Verb

undercount (third-person singular simple present undercounts, present participle undercounting, simple past and past participle undercounted)

1. To count to an insufficient degree; to count one thing disproportionately less than another
   • 2009 January 8, Brian Stelter, “Arbitron Settles Lawsuit Alleging Bias in Radio Ratings System”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     But minority stations have claimed that they are undercounted in the new system, in part because Arbitron has struggled to include representative numbers of young and minority listeners in its sample.

Related terms

• overcount

Translations

to count to an insufficient degree

• Spanish: contar de menos
• Vietnamese: tính thiếu

Noun

undercount (plural undercounts)

1. An incorrect count that is too low.
   • 2023, Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood, page 209:

     And that, Lady Darvish thought, was almost certainly an undercount.

Antonyms

• overcount

Translations

an incorrect count that is too low

Anagrams

• untrounced