Delimited vs Circumscribed - What's the difference?
delimited | circumscribed | Related terms |
Within set boundaries or limits.
With specified conditions.
(delimit)
(circumscribe)
To draw a line around; to encircle.
To limit narrowly; to restrict.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=David Simpson
, volume=188, issue=26, page=36, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= (geometry) To draw the smallest circle or higher-dimensional sphere that has (a polyhedron, polygon, etc.) in its interior.
Delimited is a related term of circumscribed.
As verbs the difference between delimited and circumscribed
is that delimited is (delimit) while circumscribed is (circumscribe).As an adjective delimited
is within set boundaries or limits.delimited
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Adjective
(-)Synonyms
* (within set boundaries): bounded, demarcatedVerb
(head)circumscribed
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Verb
(head)circumscribe
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Verb
(circumscrib)Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; perhaps to moralise on the oneness or fragility of the planet, or to see humanity for the small and circumscribed thing that it is; […].}}