delineator

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   One who, or that which, delineates.

   • For example, in many situations the imperative of tension and a delineator of conflict may require that the hero be captured.
   • Importantly, flow becomes the breath delineator that allows accurate calculations of all breath parameters.
2. 2

   A device to aid in the delineation of something.

   • The application of the principle of the delineator to such cases was very simple, but it would be difficult and perhaps useless to construct a delineator for a case where four or five wheels were running over the span.
3. 3

   Any of various jobs that involve delineation, especially that of technical details.

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   1. 4

      Synonym of delimiter.

      • The values listed for fontstyle are combined using the comma as a delineator: BOLD, ULINE.
      • "gawk" is the GNU version of "awk", a powerful pattern-matching program for processing text files that may be composed of fixed- or variable-length records separated by some delineator ( by default, a newline character).
      • The argument "eol" is an argument of mode character and gives the end of line delineator.
   2. 5

      A suffix used in some Melanesian languages that acts like a determiner and signals that…

      A suffix used in some Melanesian languages that acts like a determiner and signals that the noun to which it is attached can be used as an agent.

      • Thus certain nouns are inherently potential agents, and any other noun can be turned into one by the suffixation of the delineator.

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