delimiting

Example Sentences

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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.

From Science Magazine • Apr. 5, 2023

The line delimiting the old city boundaries will run near where women sell corn tortillas, whose ingredients have varied not at all since the Aztecs.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 12, 2021

To date, only 11 percent of people to have ever reached the Kármán boundary delimiting the earthly from the ethereal have been women.

From Washington Post • Jun. 10, 2021

The difficulty is that neither chamber has used the power in decades and neither has established rules delimiting the penalties or defining procedures for imposing them.

From Slate • Aug. 17, 2020

In probably the majority of languages that use both types of affixes each group has both delimiting and formal or relational functions.

From Language An Introduction to the Study of Speech by Sapir, Edward