delimit

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):

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• Rhymes: -ɪmɪt

Verb

delimit (third-person singular simple present delimits, present participle delimiting, simple past and past participle delimited)

1. (transitive) To mark or fix the limits of.
2. (transitive) To demarcate.

   Data items in the computer file were delimited by commas.

   The square brackets delimit the list, and individual elements are separated by commas.^WB

Related terms

• limit
• limitation
• delimitation
• delimiter

Translations

to mark or fix the limits of

• Bulgarian: определям граница (opredeljam granica)
• Danish: afgrænse
• Finnish: rajata (fi)
• Galician: derregar, estremar (gl), demarcar
• German: eingrenzen (de)
• Greek: οριοθετώ (el) (oriothetó), οροθετώ (el) (orothetó)
• Irish: teorannaigh
• Italian: delimitare (it), demarcare (it), fissare (it)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: سنور پێدان (snur pêdan)

• Portuguese: delimitar (pt)
• Russian: разграни́чивать (ru) (razgraníčivatʹ), размежёвывать (razmežóvyvatʹ)
• Spanish: delimitar (es)

to demarcate

• Bulgarian: разделям (bg) (razdeljam), разграничавам (bg) (razgraničavam)
• Finnish: rajata (fi)
• Portuguese: deliminar, demarcar (pt)
• Spanish: delimitar (es), demarcar (es)

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Translations to be checked

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} delimita (ro)

See also

• unlimit (to remove limits)

Further reading

• “delimit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “delimit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• limited, melitid