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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Boundary \Bound"a*ry\, n.; pl. Boundaries [From Bound a limit; cf. LL. bonnarium piece of land with fixed limits.] That which indicates or fixes a limit or extent, or marks a bound, as of a territory; a bounding or separating line; a real or imaginary limit. ...
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In topology and mathematics in general, the boundary of a subset S of a topological space X is the set of points which can be approached both from S and from the outside of S . More precisely, it is the set of points in the closure of S , not belonging ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the line or plane indicating the limit or extent of something [syn: bound , bounds ] a line determining the limits of an area [syn: edge , bound ] the greatest possible degree of something; "what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior"; ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from bound (n.) + -ary .
Usage examples of boundary.
Forfarshire up to 1813, while in certain villages of Inverness the custom was, up to 1801, to plough the land for the whole community, without leaving any boundaries, and to allot it after the ploughing was done.
They had failed to anticipate the radical fervor with which an entire stratum of privileged intellectuals would attempt to propel the American revolution beyond the boundaries of bourgeois democracy.
The great truths of the moral law, of natural religion, and of apostolical faith, are both its boundary and its foundation.
The Trickster is another archetype standing at the boundaries between consciousness and the unconscious.
My tender had been accepted for whatever unoccupied land lay between the boundaries of Banya and Gol Gol runs.
Strung precariously over the third and steepest waterfall along the entire Bindadnay, this bridge also served as the official boundary marker between Benji territory and the Unghatti forest.
This time she did not enter but had the britzka stop at the far side of the scrub-grown earth bank that marked the boundary.
Back at the walled garden near the house, Ana turned to survey the gently sloping terrain down to the jungle, and was hit by its unlikely but striking similarity to another would-be paradise, the remnants of which she had once visited, a hortus conclusus whose inhabitants had tried to keep the outside world at bay while an ideal society was being constructed within the boundaries.
And when the people beyond the Israelitish boundaries, from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, cried after Him, He did not listen to the exclusivistic warnings of His disciples, but He distributed even there His divine mercy.
The Adriatic boundary between Italy and Italian Gaul had been the Metaurus River, but when Sulla incorporated the ager Gallicus into Italy proper, he moved the boundary north to the Rubicon.
When the Ager Gallicus was officially brought within the boundary of Italy, the price of it soared.
Benteen Calder wanted to know about the homesteader on the other side of the Triple C boundary.
The binary conception of the world implies the essentialism and homogeneity of the identities on its two halves, and, through the relationship across that central boundary, implies the subsumption of all experience within a coherent social totality.
His identity as a reasonable, cleanly user of language blurs the boundary between Houyhnhnm and Yahoo on which Houyhnhnm culture depends.
They thrust outward from the ship, pulling webs of malleable hull tissue within their loops to form a chaotic array of cooling fins, until Null Boundary resembled some manic crystal tree, leaved in a jumble of glassy planes.