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English
Etymology
From French délimiter, from Late Latin dēlīmitō (“I mark out the limits”), from dē- + līmitō (“I limit, I bound”); see limit.
Pronunciation
Verb
delimit (third-person singular simple present delimits, present participle delimiting, simple past and past participle delimited)
- (transitive) To mark or fix the limits of.
- (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
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Translations
to mark or fix the limits of
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See also
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.
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