The phrase "a delimitation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the act of setting boundaries or limits, often in a formal or academic context.
Example: "The study aims to provide a clear delimitation of the research scope to avoid ambiguity."
Alternatives: "a boundary" or "a limitation".
It calls out for a delimitation of quantifier scope by brackets or other delimiters rather than struggling to maintain freedom from parentheses at all costs.
April 6: Abjection, ugliness, disgust: a delimitation from Kristeva.
April 7: Hegel, modern art, and the end of art: a delimitation from Pippin.
These unscheduled flows, which affect adjacent countries through e.g. a reduction of tradeable cross-border capacity, can be effectively reduced through a delimitation of bidding zones or HVDC network expansion.
The amino acid differences between the Kako strain and the singleton Lily Pinneo strain is 13.3% for the NP segment, higher than the 12% cut-off suggested by Bowen et al.12 as a delimitation criterion between LASV and other arenaviruses12.
Yet, paradoxically, they are united in their fervent belief that the only way for Russia and the United States to avoid confrontation in the former-Soviet region is through a Yalta-style "grand bargain": a delimitation of spheres of responsibility and a pledge of mutual noninterference in each other's sphere.
Although our methods for hypothesis testing do not require the a-priori delimitation of species, which in groups with a complex taxonomy (like the genus Hymenoplia) is not a trivial issue, evolutionary processes may be expected to be different at infra and interspecific level under certain types of selection.
GMYC is a species delimitation method that provides an objective way to delimit genetic clusters [ 56].
Smith and Varzi define this kind of boundaries "fiat boundaries", that is boundaries that are the results of a conceptual delimitation made by an external subject.
The X-ray structure of the bacterial protein yielded two pieces of information indispensable for the crystallization of eukaryotic Pur-α: the requirement of two PUR repeats interacting with each other to form a globular domain and a better delimitation of domain boundaries of the PUR repeats.
Preliminary analyses to elaborate a taxon delimitation threshold showed that a single threshold for the entire data set would produce less than optimal results by splitting some seemingly homogeneous clusters while pooling other, obviously well separated clusters (data not shown).
