delimit

(verb)

To mark or fix the limits of.

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Examples of delimit in the following topics:

  • Choosing Clear Words and Phrasing

    • Choose clear words and phrasing in your speech by fully understanding your topic through delimiting the question and defining key terms.
    • Essentially, when you take the steps to delimit your question (your speech's purpose), you help to outline exactly how your audience can follow your line of reasoning.
    • When you delimit the question, first think about the purpose of your speech.
    • Even though you may have outlined your plan of attack by delimiting the question, it also helps to explain exactly what you're talking about to your audience.
    • When you delimited your question, were there any key words used in that question?

  • File handling tools

    • You may set field width, numbers of decimals to display, whether to show zeros or not; in addition, you can select which rows and/or columns to display (the row and column numbers are specified as comma delimited lists, and can use "AND" and "OR").
    • It also shows labels, and allows you import row and column labels from an external text file (just prepare an ASCII text file with the labels in rows, or comma delimited).

  • Development of Metabolism

    • Diagram showing the expansion of amnion and delimitation of the umbilicus.

  • The International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses

    • Detailed work such as delimiting the boundaries of species within a family is typically done by study groups, which consist of experts in the families.

  • Social Context and Sexual Behavior

    • Russian President Boris Yeltsin (right) and President Mintimer Shaimiyev (left) of Tatarstan congratulate each other on a treaty signed between Russia and Tatarstan on the delimitation of powers between them.

  • Exporting

    • A general delimitation of exports in national accounts is as follows: An export of a good occurs when there is a change of ownership from a resident to a non-resident; this does not necessarily imply that the good in question physically crosses any border.

  • Triple Integrals

    • Looking at the domain, it seems convenient to adopt the passage in spherical coordinates; in fact, the intervals of the variables that delimit the new $T$ region are obviously:

  • Age and Sexuality

    • Rather than a monolithic sexual career delimited between stages of aging, for example, researchers have revealed a wide variety of sexual practices, patterns, and cultural debates throughout the life course, and in so doing, have complicated previous assumptions regarding aging and sexual activity.

  • Describing Qualitative Data

  • Electoral Districts

    • They may also be responsible for electoral boundary delimitation.