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Delimit

verb
1.
Determine the essential quality of.  Synonyms: define, delimitate, delineate, specify.
2.
Be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry.  Synonym: subtend.
3.
Set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something.  Synonyms: delimitate, demarcate.



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"Delimit" Quotes from Famous Books



... Gothic; though the primitiveness shown in the long, upright lines of the west front of this cathedral marks it at once as something different from either Romanesque or Transition,—though Transition it must be, unless we delimit the confines of that useful term. In any case, it points unto heaven in a truly devout manner, is not debased in any particular, and, if not a consistent style, has many of the good qualities of both. The Cathedral of St. Maurice is best ...
— The Cathedrals of Northern France • Francis Miltoun

... Paris), and shall then follow the 24th degree until it meets, to the north of the 15th parallel of latitude, the frontier of Darfur as it shall eventually be fixed. 4. The two Governments engage to appoint Commissioners who shall be charged to delimit on the spot a frontier-line in accordance with the indications given in paragraph 2 of this Declaration. The result of their work shall be submitted for the approbation of their respective Governments. It ...
— The River War • Winston S. Churchill

... militarized boundary with India is in dispute, but talks to resolve the least contested middle sector resumed in 2001; ongoing talks with Tajikistan have failed to resolve the longstanding dispute over the indefinite boundary; Kazakhstan is working rapidly with China to delimit its large open borders to control population migration, illegal activities, and trade; 2001 Treaty of Good Neighborliness, Friendship, and Cooperation commits Russia and China to seek peaceable unanimity over disputed alluvial islands at the confluence of the Amur and Ussuri rivers and a small ...
— The 2002 CIA World Factbook • US Government



Words linked to "Delimit" :   circumscribe, confine, determine, delimitation, redefine, limit, be



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