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Definition of Delimitate

1. Verb. Determine the essential quality of.

Definition of Delimitate

1. Verb. To delimit, especially in the computing sense. ¹

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Delimitate

Literary usage of Delimitate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Student's Text-book of Zoology by Adam Sedgwick, Joseph Jackson Lister, Arthur Everett Shipley (1898)
"They delimitate four wide radial pouches of the stomach, which however ... 98, sc), the septa, which delimitate the four radial l>ouches in nearly their ..."

2. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"... of a commission to delimitate the boundary between Persia and the Afghan province of Seistan, which prevented war between the two coun- tries, ..."

3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1912)
"... delimitate' is unnecessary, and ' lena' is not English. There is no index. EBT The Psychology of Education. J. WELTON. Ltd. London, 1911. pp. 507. ..."

4. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1895)
"Commissioners were appointed to delimitate the boundary agreed upon on the spot, but differences arose, and they separated without having arrived at any ..."

5. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1910)
"The high contracting parties reserve to themselves to delimitate more accurately, in accordance with local traditions, the boundaries of the territory ..."

6. The Quarterly Review by John Gibson Lockhart, George Walter Prothero, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Baron Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, Sir William Smith (1915)
"The results which will ensue are almost as hard to forecast as those of the Conference which will delimitate the frontiers of Europe. ..."

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