boundary

English

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Etymology

Old French, from Latin

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /baʊndɹi/ X-SAMPA: /baUndri/

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• Rhymes: -aʊndɹi

Noun

boundary (plural boundaries)

1. The dividing line or location between two areas.
2. (cricket) An edge or line marking an edge of the playing field.
3. (cricket) An event whereby the ball is struck and either touches or passes over a boundary (with or without bouncing), usually resulting in an award of 4 (a four) or 6 (a six) runs respectively for the batting team.
4. (topology) (of a set) the set of points in the closure of a set $S$, not belonging to the interior of that set.

Derived terms

• boundary umpire
• boundary rider

Related terms

• bound

Translations

dividing line or location between two areas

• Armenian: սահման (hy) (sahman)
• Bulgarian: граница (bg) (granica) f
• Czech: hranice (cs) f
• Dutch: grens (nl)
• French: frontière (fr) f, limite (fr) f
• Georgian: მიჯნა (ka) (miǰna)
• Hungarian: határ (hu), mezsgye (hu), mezsgye (hu)
• Italian: confine (it), limite (it)
• Japanese: 境界 (ja) (きょうかい, kyōkai), 境 (ja) (さかい, sakai)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: سنور (ku) (sinoor)

• Latin: finis (la)
• Lithuanian: riba (lt) f
• Mongolian: {хил, зааг, хилийн шугам, саад тотгор, тээг, садаа}
• Polish: granica (pl) f
• Portuguese: fronteira (pt) f
• Romanian: frontieră (ro) f, graniță (ro) f, limită (ro) f
• Russian: граница (ru) (granica) f
• Spanish: frontera (es) m, límite (es) m
• Swahili: mpaka (sw)
• Tamil: எல்லை (ta) (ellai)
• Welsh: ffin (cy) f

(topology) the set of points in the closure, not belonging to the interior

• French: frontière (fr) f
• German: Rand (de) m
• Hebrew: שפה (he) (safá) f

• Japanese: 境界 (ja) (きょうかい, kyōkai)
• Latin: fines (la), fines (la)

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• Telugu: ఎల్ల (ella), సరిహద్దు (sarihaddu)

See also

• border
• confine
• frontier
• fladry

External links

• boundary in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• boundary in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911