'delimiting' is a correct word in written English and is commonly used in technical or academic contexts.
It means to set boundaries or limits and can be used in a variety of ways. Example: The researchers used statistical analysis techniques to delimit the scope of their study and ensure their findings were accurate.
A constitutional convention is under way, which could help to connect the EU's citizens to its institutions by defining and delimiting the club's purpose, but may end up by imposing unpopular integration (see article) for the views of Britain's foreign secretary, Jack Straw).
Perhaps a phrase such as "her convex thighs curved steeply inward where they met and transformed, without violating her fundamental homeomorphism, into a concavity delimiting another sort of space" could only have been written by an author who has described a few too many thighs.To be fair, most of "Villages" is a cut above this.
A draft electoral law, determining what system, proportional representation or otherwise, will be employed, and delimiting constituencies, has not yet been finalised.
Russia has ratified treaties delimiting borders with a mere five of its 14 neighbours a measure of the Duma's reluctance to concede that the Soviet Union has gone for good.After these main branches of government come unacknowledged but also powerful actors.
There might then occur that state of many competitive governments which is such a breath of fresh air, and such a provider of liberty, in the United States.That would require a constitutional code delimiting these powers, and probably the extent to which each level of government should be entitled to use them to infringe individual rights.
At the Yalta Conference, a meeting of the Big Three in a Crimean resort city in February 1945, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin laid the basis for charter provisions delimiting the authority of the Security Council.
You are reluctant to delimit the scope of such a policy ("anything from armed intervention to a statement in parliament").
Coverage in Le Monde has been divided between editorials demanding that "the work of security agencies be delimited by effective parliamentary or judicial procedures of control", and breathless accounts of communications between French and American security forces over whether the Americans were behind the cyberattacks on the French president's office in 2012.
Because economists could not measure spillovers or delimit their scope ("How far does a technological spillover spill?" Mr Krugman wondered), they could invoke them to explain just about anything.Mr Krugman's models instead identified a less elusive benefit of proximity.
It is an ocean plus some almost entirely delimited land.
A bigger row could yet erupt over continental shelves, most of which are being slowly delimited under the UN's Convention on the Law of the Sea.
