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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of delimit.

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Examples

  • The second main concern is that the specifically American nature for PSC-shipper engagement seemingly delimits the degree to which United States Navy will respond to Somali piracy.

    David Isenberg: PSCs at Sea: The Reasons They Really May be "All at Sea" David Isenberg 2011

  • The second main concern is that the specifically American nature for PSC-shipper engagement seemingly delimits the degree to which United States Navy will respond to Somali piracy.

    David Isenberg: PSCs at Sea: The Reasons They Really May be "All at Sea" David Isenberg 2011

  • I walked along the narrow ledge and leapt onto the pavement, thus exiting without being numbered at the turnstile that delimits the space for which one pays and the free world.

    The Unexamined Saturday « Unknowing 2009

  • But unlike traditional empiricists, Popper holds that experience cannot determine theory (i.e., we do not argue or infer from observation to theory), it rather delimits it: it shows which theories are false, not which theories are true.

    Karl Popper Thornton, Stephen 2009

  • However, Janus also delimits a boundary: his most vital role is as not only the god of gateways, but also as the god of the first Chaos.

    Dissertation Fragments Part I Mary Kate Hurley 2007

  • However, that description delimits their membership only to AFP people who may think alike.

    Capt Dante Langkit: his Future in Politics and his Continuing Dilemma 2009

  • For example, Stephen Lendman, a peace advocate and writer in his seventies with a permanent knee injury that delimits travel, has been repeatedly investigated by the FBI.

    Who's A Low Level Terrorist? Are You? 2009

  • In these cases, in contrast to the cases from quantum mechanics, we lack a theory or body of results that delimits the factors that are potentially relevant to the probability of the outcome that interests us.

    Scientific Explanation Woodward, James 2009

  • The response of treeline white spruce populations to climate change is of particular interest because this species delimits much of the North American treeline [35] and the performance under warmer conditions of present-day populations is an indication of the possible future effects of climate change.

    Direct climate effects on tree growth in the Arctic 2009

  • However, Janus also delimits a boundary: his most vital role is as not only the god of gateways, but also as the god of the first Chaos.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2007

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