Meaning & use
delimitations
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The acts of fixing or marking the boundaries or limits of something.
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The treaty included careful delimitations of the new border.
The study's delimitations excluded participants under the age of eighteen.
A note on using this word
In academic research papers, "delimitations" specifically refers to the boundaries a researcher deliberately sets for the scope of a study.
Words with a similar meaning
boundariesdemarcations
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