branch-and-bound technique

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branch-and-bound technique [¦branch ən ¦bau̇nd tek′nēk]

(industrial engineering)

A technique in nonlinear programming in which all sets of feasible solutions are divided into subsets, and those having bounds inferior to others are rejected.

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