What is meant by bounding box in android map view

I am sorry if it seems a silly question to you, but I have been dealing with some problems in my android project and my client constantly refers to the term bounding box. Ca开发者_高级运维n someone please tell me what exactly is Bounding-box ,with ref to map view in android

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You can specify a bounding box to limit the search criteria of the Geocoder's getFromLocationName method by giving it the lower left and upper right latitude/longitudes as arguments.

Also if you are using osmdroid to implement an OpenStreetMap mapview rather than a Google mapview, then there is a class in that library named org.osmdroid.util.BoundingBoxE6

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The term bounding box typically refers to the rectangular space taken up by an item on screen.