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delimit
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English
Etymology
From French délimiter, from Late Latin dēlīmitō (“I mark out the limits”), from dē- + līmitō (“I limit, I bound”); see limit.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɪˈlɪmɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪmɪt
Verb
delimit (third-person singular simple present delimits, present participle delimiting, simple past and past participle delimited)
- (transitive, literal, figurative) To mark or fix the limits of.
- Near-synonyms: (literal) demarcate; (figurative) limit, constrain
- Data items in the computer file were delimited by commas.
- The square brackets delimit the list, and individual elements are separated by commas.WB
- The possibilities for new automotive features are vast but are practically delimited by costs of development and manufacturing.
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Translations
to mark or fix the limits of
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to demarcate
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See also
- unlimit (to remove limits)
Further reading
- “delimit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “delimit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
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