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Verb: delimit  di'li-mit or dee'li-mit
  1. Determine the essential quality of
    - specify, define, delineate, delimitate
     
  2. Be opposite to; of angles and sides, in geometry
    - subtend
     
  3. Set, mark, or draw the boundaries of something
    - demarcate, delimitate, demark

Derived forms: delimits, delimiting, delimited

Type of: be, bound, confine, limit, restrict, throttle, trammel

Encyclopedia: Delimit