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delimitate

[ dih-lim-i-teyt ]

/ dɪˈlɪm ɪˌteɪt /

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verb (used with object), de·lim·i·tat·ed, de·lim·i·tat·ing.

delimit.

Origin of delimitate

1880–85; < Latin dēlīmitātus, past participle of dēlīmitāre. See delimit, -ate¹

OTHER WORDS FROM delimitate

de·lim·i·ta·tion, noun de·lim·i·ta·tive, noun, adjective

Words nearby delimitate

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Example sentences from the Web for delimitation

We have an interesting case of indefinite Jewish delimitation in our portraits.

Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, January 1899 |Various
Now, there is what we call a delimitation agreement among the Government intelligence agencies.

Warren Commission (5 of 26): Hearings Vol. V (of 15) |The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
From the nature of the case there can be no objective, and therefore no common, standards of delimitation.

Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume II (of 3) |George John Romanes
But the delimitation of the frontier of Burma is not yet complete.

An Australian in China |George Ernest Morrison

Burma, her quondam feudatory, also agreed to a delimitation of boundaries at the proper time.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 |Various