Synonyms of the word boundary


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boundary

  • n. The dividing line or location between two areas.
  • n. (cricket) An edge or line marking an edge of the playing field.
  • n. (cricket) An event whereby the ball is struck and either touches or passes over a boundary (with or without…

bound

  • v. simple past tense and past participle of bind.
  • adj. (with infinitive) Obliged (to).
  • adj. (with infinitive) Very likely (to).
  • adj. (linguistics, of a morpheme) That cannot stand alone as a free word.
  • adj. (mathematics, logic, of a variable) Constrained by a quantifier.
  • adj. (dated) constipated; costive.
  • adj. Confined or restricted to a certain place; e.g. railbound.
  • adj. Unable to move in certain conditions; e.g. snowbound.
  • n. (often used in plural) A boundary, the border which one must cross in order to enter or leave a territory.
  • n. (mathematics) a value which is known to be greater or smaller than a given set of values.
  • v. To surround a territory or other geographical entity.
  • v. (mathematics) To be the boundary of.
  • n. A sizeable jump, great leap.
  • n. A spring from one foot to the other in dancing.
  • n. (dated) A bounce; a rebound.
  • v. (intransitive) To leap, move by jumping.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to leap.
  • v. (intransitive, dated) To rebound; to bounce.
  • v. (transitive, dated) To cause to rebound; to throw so that it will rebound; to bounce.
  • adj. (obsolete) ready, prepared.
  • adj. ready, able to start or go (to); moving in the direction (of).

bounds

  • n. plural of bound.
  • v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of bound.

edge

  • n. The boundary line of a surface.
  • n. (geometry) A one-dimensional face of a polytope. In particular, the joining line between two vertices…
  • n. An advantage.
  • n. (also figuratively) The thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword,…
  • n. A sharp terminating border; a margin; a brink; an extreme verge.
  • n. Sharpness; readiness or fitness to cut; keenness; intenseness of desire.
  • n. The border or part adjacent to the line of division; the beginning or early part (of a period of time).
  • n. (cricket) A shot where the ball comes off the edge of the bat, often unintentionally.
  • n. (graph theory) A connected pair of vertices in a graph.
  • n. In male masturbation, a level of sexual arousal that is maintained just short of reaching the point of…
  • v. (transitive) To move an object slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  • v. (intransitive) To move slowly and carefully in a particular direction.
  • v. (usually in the form 'just edge') To win by a small margin.
  • v. (cricket, transitive) To hit the ball with an edge of the bat, causing a fine deflection.
  • v. (transitive) To trim the margin of a lawn where the grass meets the sidewalk, usually with an electric…
  • v. (transitive) To furnish with an edge; to construct an edging.
  • v. To furnish with an edge, as a tool or weapon; to sharpen.
  • v. (figuratively) To make sharp or keen; to incite; to exasperate; to goad; to urge or egg on.
  • v. (intransitive) To delay one's orgasm so as to remain almost at the point of orgasm.

extent

  • n. A range of values or locations.
  • n. The space, area, volume, etc., to which something extends.
  • n. (computing) A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
  • adj. (obsolete) Extended.

extremity

  • n. The most extreme or furthest point of something.
  • n. An extreme measure.
  • n. A hand or foot.
  • n. A limb (major appendage of human or animal such as a leg an arm or a wing).

limit

  • n. A restriction; a bound beyond which one may not go.
  • n. (mathematics) A value to which a sequence converges. Equivalently, the common value of the upper limit…
  • n. (mathematics) Any of several abstractions of this concept of limit.
  • n. (category theory) The cone of a diagram through which any other cone of that same diagram can factor uniquely.
  • n. (poker) Short for fixed limit.
  • n. The final, utmost, or furthest point; the border or edge.
  • n. (obsolete) The space or thing defined by limits.
  • n. (obsolete) That which terminates a period of time; hence, the period itself; the full time or extent.
  • n. (obsolete) A restriction; a check or curb; a hindrance.
  • n. (logic, metaphysics) A determining feature; a distinguishing characteristic.
  • n. (cycling) The first group of riders to depart in a handicap race.
  • adj. (poker) Being a fixed limit game.
  • v. (transitive) To restrict; not to allow to go beyond a certain bound.
  • v. (mathematics, intransitive) To have a limit in a particular set.
  • v. (obsolete) To beg, or to exercise functions, within a certain limited region.

line

  • n. A path through two or more points (compare ‘segment’); a continuous mark, including as made by a pen;…
  • n. A rope, cord, string, or thread, of any thickness.
  • n. A hose or pipe, of any size.
  • n. Direction, path.
  • n. The wire connecting one telegraphic station with another, a telephone or internet cable between two points:…
  • n. A letter, a written form of communication.
  • n. A connected series of public conveyances, as a roadbed or railway track; and hence, an established arrangement…
  • n. (military) A trench or rampart, or the non-physical demarcation of the extent of the territory occupied…
  • n. The exterior limit of a figure or territory: a boundary, contour, or outline; a demarcation.
  • n. A long tape or ribbon marked with units for measuring; a tape measure.
  • n. (obsolete) A measuring line or cord.
  • n. That which was measured by a line, such as a field or any piece of land set apart; hence, allotted place…
  • n. A threadlike crease or wrinkle marking the face, hand, or body; hence, a characteristic mark.
  • n. Lineament; feature; figure (of one's body).
  • n. A more-or-less straight sequence of people, objects, etc., either arranged as a queue or column and often…
  • n. (military) The regular infantry of an army, as distinguished from militia, guards, volunteer corps, cavalry,…
  • n. A series or succession of ancestors or descendants of a given person; a family or race; compare lineage.
  • n. A small amount of text. Specifically.
  • n. Course of conduct, thought, occupation, or policy; method of argument; department of industry, trade,…
  • n. The official, stated position (or set of positions) of an individual or group, particularly a political…
  • n. The products or services sold by a business, or by extension, the business itself.
  • n. (stock exchange) A number of shares taken by a jobber.
  • n. A measure of length.
  • n. (historical) A maxwell, a unit of magnetic flux.
  • n. (baseball, slang, 1800s, with "the") The batter’s box.
  • n. (fencing, ‘line of engagement’) The position in which the fencers hold their swords.
  • n. (engineering) Proper relative position or adjustment (of parts, not as to design or proportion, but with…
  • n. A small portion or serving (of a powdery illegal drug).
  • n. (obsolete) Instruction; doctrine.
  • n. (genetics) Population of cells derived from a single cell and containing the same genetic makeup.
  • n. (perfusion line) a set composed of a spike, a drip chamber, a clamp, a Y-injection site, a three-way stopcock…
  • n. (ice hockey) A group of forwards that play together.
  • v. (transitive) To place (objects) into a line (usually used with "up"); to form into a line; to align.
  • v. (transitive) To place persons or things along the side of for security or defense; to strengthen by adding;…
  • v. To form a line along.
  • v. (transitive) To mark with a line or lines, to cover with lines.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To represent by lines; to delineate; to portray.
  • v. (transitive) To read or repeat line by line.
  • v. (intransitive, ‘line up’) To form or enter into a line.
  • v. (intransitive, baseball) To hit a line drive; to hit a line drive which is caught for an out. Compare…
  • v. To track (wild bees) to their nest by following their line of flight.
  • n. (obsolete) Flax; linen, particularly the longer fiber of flax.
  • v. (transitive) To cover the inner surface of (something), originally especially with linen.
  • v. To reinforce (the back of a book) with glue and glued scrap material such as fabric or paper.
  • v. (transitive) To fill or supply (something), as a purse with money.
  • v. (transitive, now rare, of a dog) to copulate with, to impregnate.

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