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Grammar : Verb
Spell : dih-lim-it
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈlɪm ɪt



Définition of delimited

Origin :
  • 1852, from French délimiter (18c.), from Latin delimitare "to mark out as a boundary," from de- (see de-) + limitare, from limitem, limes "boundary, limit" (see limit (n.)). Related: Delimited; delimiting.
  • verb set the limits
Example sentences :
  • This delimited area is little short of a million square miles.
  • Extract from : « American Forest Trees » by Henry H. Gibson
  • Any text supplied for the three missing notes themselves is also delimited by braces.
  • Extract from : « The Apostles » by Ernest Renan
  • In this passage Wordsworth has delimited his territory, has poetically yet plainly indicated his special province.
  • Extract from : « Main Currents in Nineteenth Century Literature - 4. Naturalism in England » by Georg Brandes
  • From the earliest art to Cézanne, objects have been portrayed as if conceived in vacuo, with absolute and delimited contours.
  • Extract from : « Modern Painting, Its Tendency and Meaning » by Willard Huntington Wright
  • They had measured Greatness; greatness which is not to be delimited by the wanton outrages of man or the accidents of time.
  • Extract from : « Holbein » by Beatrice Fortescue
  • Where British and French troops were operating together in a fighting zone, their respective responsibilities were delimited.
  • Extract from : « G. H. Q. » by Frank Fox
  • How local areas may, in a scientific way, be delimited and isolated for purposes of study will appear in a later chapter.
  • Extract from : « Essentials of Economic Theory » by John Bates Clark
  • I know of no way of so identifying it except by discovering that it is delimited in a time continuum.
  • Extract from : « Essays in Experimental Logic » by John Dewey
  • In this year Russia and England delimited their boundaries in the Pamirs.
  • Extract from : « The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.) » by John Holland Rose

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