Definition of "delimiting" [delimiting]

• Present participle of delimit. (verb)
• That serves to delimit (adjective)

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• "In a great many languages composition is confined to what we may call the delimiting function, that is, of the two or more compounded elements one is given a more precisely qualified significance by the others, which contribute nothing to the formal build of the sentence."
• "At work in this series of destructions is the familiar, pyromaniacal frustration of a kid at odds with the world and its architected environments -- the many rooms we inhabit and are fitted into -- especially those delimiting our sexual and professional identities."
• "UCLA's Richard Baum, a specialist on Chinese politics, wrote in 1982 that "characteristics of traditional Chinese culture" were continuing to hinder the development of Chinese science in the eighties -- that is, the political and social factors that prevented Chinese science from independently developing "modern science" are still influencing and delimiting Chinese science today, even after "modern science" has come to China."