underflow

About 0.18 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A current flowing below the surface.
2. noun A condition in which the value of a computed quantity is smaller than the smallest value that can be physically stored; usually treated as an error condition.
3. noun The error condition that results from an attempt to retrieve an item from an empty stack.
4. verb To trigger the condition in which the value of a computed quantity is smaller than the smallest value that can be physically stored.
5. verb To trigger the error condition resulting from attempting to retrieve a value from an empty stack.

Similar words

exponent throughflow streamflow stormflow surface runoff overwash baseflow downflooding point underblow earthflow

Often followed by

of and is from or concentration in occurs to