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delimit

verb as in set the limits

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The Comoe River clearly delimits part of the northeastern frontier between Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso -- but the land border is poorly demarcated.

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The phenomenon in which an initial antibody response to a virus dominates and delimits the response to later strains of the same virus is called "immunological imprinting," or "original antigenic sin."

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He rebutted Maduro’s description of oil concessions granted by Guyana as being “in a maritime area yet to be delimited.”

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One can see this playing out today in the rules for citizenship, voting and other mechanisms that serve to define and delimit participation in democratic politics.

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One task will be delimiting the ocean, which some researchers think could exist in multiple layers, separated by high-pressure species of ice.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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