delimiting

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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

What’s so remarkable about its use in Portrait of a Lady on Fire is the way the song embodies its own meaning, creating and delimiting a liberating space right at the film’s center.

From Slate • Dec. 10, 2019

I would stand between him and the delimiting training of the pedagogue, I thought.

From The Wonder by Beresford, J. D. (John Davys)