All delimitation synonyms

noun delimitation

• description — You can say that something is beyond description, or that it defies description, to emphasize that it is very unusual, impressive, terrible, or extreme.
• detention — Detention is when someone is arrested or put into prison, especially for political reasons.
• incarceration — the act of incarcerating, or putting in prison or another enclosure: The incarceration rate has increased dramatically.
• repression — the act of repressing; state of being repressed.
• jail — a prison, especially one for the detention of persons awaiting trial or convicted of minor offenses.
• custody — Custody is the legal right to keep and look after a child, especially the right given to a child's mother or father when they get divorced.
• internment — an act or instance of interning.
• interpretation — the act of interpreting; elucidation; explication: This writer's work demands interpretation.
• solution — the act of solving a problem, question, etc.: The situation is approaching solution.
• rationale — the fundamental reason or reasons serving to account for something.
• answer — When you answer someone who has asked you something, you say something back to them.
• translation — the rendering of something into another language or into one's own from another language.
• separation — an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated.
• control — Control of an organization, place, or system is the power to make all the important decisions about the way that it is run.
• keeping — board and lodging; subsistence; support: to work for one's keep.
• safekeeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
• cramp — Cramp is a sudden strong pain caused by a muscle suddenly contracting. You sometimes get cramp in a muscle after you have been making a physical effort over a long period of time.
• constraint — A constraint is something that limits or controls what you can do.
• limitation — a limiting condition; restrictive weakness; lack of capacity; inability or handicap: He knows his limitations as a writer.
• curb — If you curb something, you control it and keep it within limits.
• circumscription — the act of circumscribing or the state of being circumscribed
• coercion — Coercion is the act or process of persuading someone forcefully to do something that they do not want to do.
• check — Check is also a noun.
• bonds — Barry (Lamar). born 1964, US baseball player: holder of records for most home runs in a season (73) and a career (762)
• bounds — a limit; boundary (esp in the phrase know no bounds)
• comment — If you comment on something, you give your opinion about it or you give an explanation for it.
• rendering — Building Trades. a first coat of plaster for a masonry surface.
• signification — meaning; import; sense.
• analogue — If one thing is an analogue of another, it is similar in some way.
• clarification — to make (an idea, statement, etc.) clear or intelligible; to free from ambiguity.
• fixing — Informal. a position from which it is difficult to escape; predicament.
• gloss — an explanation or translation, by means of a marginal or interlinear note, of a technical or unusual expression in a manuscript text.
• cue — In the theatre or in a musical performance, a performer's cue is something another performer says or does that is a signal for them to begin speaking, playing, or doing something.
• commentary — A commentary is a description of an event that is broadcast on radio or television while the event is taking place.
• drift — a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
• clue — A clue to a problem or mystery is something that helps you to find the answer to it.
• determination — Determination is the quality that you show when you have decided to do something and you will not let anything stop you.
• key — a small metal instrument specially cut to fit into a lock and move its bolt.
• rendition — the act of rendering.
• annotation — Annotation is the activity of annotating something.
• delineation — the act or process of delineating.
• demarcation — Demarcation is the establishment of boundaries or limits separating two areas, groups, or things.
• diagnosis — Diagnosis is the discovery and naming of what is wrong with someone who is ill or with something that is not working properly.
• representation — the act of representing.
• denotation — the act or process of denoting; indication
• terminology — the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject; nomenclature: the terminology of botany.
• characterization — Characterization is the way an author or an actor describes or shows what a character is like.
• individuation — the act of individuating.
• formalization — to make formal, especially for the sake of official or authorized acceptance: to formalize an understanding by drawing up a legal contract.
• settling — the act of a person or thing that settles.