boundary term

Definitions

1. 1

   A word or phrase that is used for othering

   A word or phrase that is used for othering; a term that serves to identify someone or something as other than the speaker.

   • 'Sustainability' is a boundary term, signifying complex interactions between science, politics, policy making and development (Scoones, 2010: 153-4).
   • A term which could be seen as a high boundary term ('the enemy' as opposed to 'the friend') is used, but Paul tells them, as it were, to dismantle such a boundary from the inside, by undertaking acts of love and compassion.
2. 2

   A term that must be added to an equation to represent a boundary condition.

   • If M is truncated to have toral boundary, there will be a boundary term after the integration by parts step.
   • Thus the boundary term ambiguity is under physical control: Each distinct choice of the quasi-local expression given by the Hamiltonian boundary term is associated with a physically distinct boundary condition.

The neighborhood