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delimit

verb
/dɪˈlɪmɪt/

Etymology

From French délimiter, from Late Latin dēlīmitō (“to mark out the limits”), from dē- + līmitō (“to limit, to bound”); see limit.

  1. derived from dēlīmitō
  2. borrowed from délimiter

Definitions

  1. To mark or fix the limits of.

    • Near-synonyms: (literal) demarcate; (figurative) limit, constrain
    • Data items in the computer file were delimited by commas.
    • The square brackets delimit the list, and individual elements are separated by commas.ᵂᴮ

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for delimit. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA