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Etymology

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Frombound +‎-ary,Old French, fromLatin.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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boundary (pluralboundaries)

  1. thedividingline orlocationbetween twoareas
    • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, inZollenstein, New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company,→OCLC,page40:
      So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the Frenchboundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
    • 2017 October, Juin-Jen Chang, Ching-Chong Lai, Ping Wang, “A Tale of Two Cities: Cross-Border Casino Competition Between Detroit and Windsor”, inNBER WORKING PAPER SERIES‎[1], archived fromthe original on15 August 2021, page 1:
      City or nationalboundaries are locations of economic opportunity, especially if the existence of the border is itself the source of a monopoly situation that favors one side over the other (Krakover, 1997).
  2. (figurative, often in theplural) thebounds,confines, orlimits between immaterial things(such as one’s comfort zone, privacy, or professional sphere and the realm beyond)
    I didn’t mean to push theboundaries by sending my boss a message on Saturday night.
  3. (cricket) an edge or line marking an edge of the playing field
  4. (cricket) an event whereby the ball is struck and either touches or passes over a boundary (with or withoutbouncing), usually resulting in an award of 4 (four) or 6 (six)runs respectively for the batting team
    Travis hit aboundary to seal the match on the last ball of the over.
  5. (topology)(of a set) the set of points in theclosure of asetS{\displaystyle S}, not belonging to theinterior of that set
  6. (Philippines)commission paid by abus orjeepney driver to a public transportation operator for taking passengers, or theexcess collectedfares taken asdailywage

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Translations

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dividing line or location between two areas
bounds, confines, or limits between immaterial things
(topology) the set of points in the closure, not belonging to the interior
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