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Definition of Delimitation
1. Noun. A line that indicates a boundary.
Generic synonyms: Bound, Boundary, Bounds
Specialized synonyms: Circuit, Circumference, Fence Line, Property Line, State Boundary, State Line
Specialized synonyms: Green Line, Line Of Control
Derivative terms: Border, Border, Border, Delimit, Delimitate
Definition of Delimitation
1. n. The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation.
Definition of Delimitation
1. Noun. The act of delimiting something ¹
2. Noun. A limit or boundary ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Delimitation
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Delimitation
1. Marking off; putting bounds or limits; preventing the spread of a morbid process in the body or of a disease in the community. Origin: L. De-limito, pp. -atus, to bound, fr. Limes, boundary (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Delimitation
Literary usage of Delimitation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Map of Europe by Treaty: Showing the Various Political and Territorial by Edward Hertslet (1891)
"611), for the delimitation of the Canton of ... Consideration of method of
proceeding with delimitation. Natural linos to be adopted wherever possible. ..."
2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"ANGLO-PORTUGUESE delimitation COMMISSION. MAJOR LEVERSON and the other members
of the Commission for the delimitation of the Anglo-Portuguese Boundary in ..."
3. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1908)
"IT is perhaps always desirable that the readers of a book should have a clear
idea of what the writer of it proposes to give them : delimitation it is very ..."
4. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1893)
"PART L PLANES OF delimitation. IN our endeavours to obtain a rational and a
convenient ... Two objections may be raised to this method of delimitation. ..."
5. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1907)
"PART I. PLATO, AND KANT'S delimitation OF KNOWLEDGE. BY JUDGE LH JONES. THAT the
services which philosophy has been able to render the cause of religion, ..."
6. Criminology by Raffaele Garofalo (1914)
"The delimitation of Criminality And now as to our delimitation of criminality.
For us, all crime falls into two extensive categories, according as offense ..."
7. Modern Pacific Settlements Involving the Application of the Principle of by William Evans Darby (1904)
"delimitation COMMISSIONS. The survey, and so the final settlement, of international
boundaries, is committed, sooner or later, to Joint Commissions, but, ..."
8. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"Mortimer Durand arranged with the Ameer in 1893 the basis of a boundary delimitation
between Afghanistan and British India, which has since been carried out ..."
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