delineation

delineate | American Dictionary

delineate
verb[ T ]
us/dɪˈlɪn·iˌeɪt/

delineateverb[T] (SHOW BORDER)

to mark the border of something:
The boundary of the park is delineated by a row of trees.

delineateverb[T] (DESCRIBE)

to describe something completely, including details:
The constitution carefully delineates the duties of the treasurer’s office.

Examples of delineate

delineate
This essay first delineates some of the leading themes in the discourse about the jobber.
The following section delineates the nature of the personal and family visits that have been performed in the past half-century.
Experimental methods are critical in delineating the nature and strength of other predispositions enabling social exchange, and what contexts elicit them.
Moreover, colorflowmapping delineated die anomalous vessels supplying the pulmonary sequestration.
All three goals serve the overarching aim of attempting to delineate different aspects of heterogeneity in this complex, intriguing, and costly human syndrome.
He delineated the contours of psychic structures in and across which the flow of psychic energy was said to take place.
For 3,773 of these respondents, the personal networks have been delineated.
In the normally structured heart, all three of the segments delineated by the junctional areas themselves possess two components.
The sharply delineated but superficial attachment to the equine caecum by the mouth leaves behind an oval area devoid of epithelial cells.
American policy did not show a clearly delineated trajectory either.
Perhaps methods can be developed to reduce this proof to its bare essentials, delineating as clearly as possible the reason for optimality or infeasibility.
For this, we need to clearly delineate the framework of creation that immanence permits.
There are no absolute groups of people, defined and delineated once and for all, and to be labelled tribes.
Constituting a new nation and defining its culture meant, among other things, mapping its figurative geography, delineating the nation's boundaries.
This makes things a bit harder to parse, since spaces do not necessarily delineate value boundaries.
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