boundary

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English

Etymology

bound +‎ -ary, Old French, from Latin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbaʊndɹi/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbaʊndəɹi/

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• Rhymes: -aʊndɹi

Noun

boundary (plural boundaries)

1. The dividing line or location between two areas.
   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 731476803:

     So this was my future home, I thought! […] Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

2. (cricket) An edge or line marking an edge of the playing field.
3. (cricket) An event whereby the ball is struck and either touches or passes over a boundary (with or without bouncing), usually resulting in an award of 4 (four) or 6 (six) runs respectively for the batting team.
4. (topology) (of a set) The set of points in the closure of a set $S$, not belonging to the interior of that set.

Derived terms

• Boundary County
• boundary rider
• boundary umpire

Related terms

• bound

Translations

dividing line or location between two areas

• Armenian: սահման (hy) (sahman)
• Belarusian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: грани́ца (bg) f (graníca)
• Catalan: frontera (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 邊界 (zh), 边界 (zh) (biānjiè)

• Czech: hranice (cs) f
• Dutch: grens (nl)
• Finnish: raja (fi), reuna (fi), rajaviiva
• French: frontière (fr) f, limite (fr) f
• Galician: fronteira f, estrema (gl), linde (gl) m
• Georgian: მიჯნა (miǯna)
• German: Grenze (de) f
• Greek: σύνορο (el) n (sýnoro), όριο (el) n (ório)
• Hungarian: határ (hu), mezsgye (hu)
• Italian: confine (it), limite (it)
• Japanese: 境界 (ja) (きょうかい, kyōkai), 境 (ja) (さかい, sakai)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: سنور‎ (ku) (sinoor)

• Latin: terminus (la) m, finis (la)

• Lithuanian: riba (lt) f
• Maori: kotinga, matawehe (interface where two differing media meet), pātanga, rohenga, rohe tauārai, paenga, taupā, tepe, aukati, tuakoi, ripa
• Mongolian: хил (mn) (hil), зааг (mn) (zaag), хилийн шугам (hilijn šugam), саад тотгор (saad totgor), тээг (mn) (teeg), садаа (mn) (sadaa)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: grense (no) m or f, avgrensing m or f

  Nynorsk: grense f, avgrensing f

• Persian: مرز‎ (fa) (marz)
• Polish: granica (pl) f
• Portuguese: fronteira (pt) f
• Romanian: frontieră (ro) f, graniță (ro) f, limită (ro) f
• Russian: грани́ца (ru) f (graníca), межа́ (ru) f (mežá)
• Spanish: frontera (es) m, límite (es) m
• Swahili: mpaka (sw)
• Swedish: gräns (sv) c
• Tagalog: hangganan
• Tamil: எல்லை (ta) (ellai)
• Ukrainian: кордон (uk) m (kordon), межа f (meža)
• Welsh: ffin (cy) f
• Zazaki: sinor

(topology) the set of points in the closure, not belonging to the interior

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 邊界 (zh), 边界 (zh) (biānjiè)

• Danish: rand (da) c
• Finnish: reuna (fi)
• French: frontière (fr) f
• German: Rand (de) m
• Hebrew: שפה‎ (he) f (safá)

• Japanese: 境界 (ja) (きょうかい, kyōkai)
• Latin: fines (la), fines (la)
• Portuguese: fronteira (pt) f
• Romanian: margine (ro) f
• Russian: грани́ца (ru) f (graníca), край (ru) m (kraj)
• Tagalog: hangganan

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Translations to be checked

• Telugu: ^{(please verify)} ఎల్ల (te) (ella), ^{(please verify)} సరిహద్దు (te) (sarihaddu)

See also

• border
• confine
• frontier
• fladry

Further reading

• boundary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• boundary in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.