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set or mark the boundaries of something

The agreement delimits the western border of the Strait of Singapore.

The data consists of numbers delimited by commas.
The two ways in which their memories reacted to the evening storm sharply delimit love and nonlove.
Milan Kundera -- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
He looked at the squares of sky delimited by the slender lines of girders and columns, the empty cubes of space he had torn out of the sky.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
—I had found small edification, mostly, in a critical pretension that had neglected from the first all delimitation of ground and all definition of terms.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 1

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

—I had found small edification, mostly, in a critical pretension that had neglected from the first all delimitation of ground and all definition of terms.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2

The territory owned by my wolf family comprised more than a hundred square miles, bounded on one side by a river but otherwise not delimited by geographical features.
Farley Mowat -- Never Cry Wolf
...at some charming point of land, reconnoitering some receding inlet which promised water-lilies, and with Roberta already saying that they must watch the time and not stay out too long,—the bay, south of the island itself—a beautiful and yet most funereally pine-encircled and land delimited bit of water—more like a smaller lake, connected by an inlet or passage to the larger one, and yet itself a respectable body of water of perhaps twenty acres of surface and almost circular in form.
Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy

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