Definitions for boundary

boundary bound·a·ry

Spelling: [boun-duh-ree, -dree]
IPA: /ˈbaʊn də ri, -dri/

Boundary is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 302 anagrams from letters in boundary (abdnoruy).

Definitions for boundary

noun

  1. something that indicates bounds or limits; a limiting or bounding line.
  2. Also called frontier. Mathematics. the collection of all points of a given set having the property that every neighborhood of each point contains points in the set and in the complement of the set.
  3. Cricket. a hit in which the ball reaches or crosses the boundary line of the field on one or more bounces, counting four runs for the batsman. Compare six (def 5).

Origin of boundary

First recorded in 1620-30; bound3 + -ary

Examples for boundary

The misfortune then was that no boundary stones could be found.

Right ahead was a stone marker which he knew marked the boundary of 150 Nevada.

We need to take a razor and make a boundary in the shaving foam, people.

They are like explorers who should mistake a boundary for the interior of a continent.

We also need to cross the boundary between environmental and non-environmental issues.

My life goal is the expansion of human knowledge, and the elimination of the earth-moon system as the boundary of human influence.

First you have to convince people to accept your version of the boundary between law and politics.

The seventh of these hath a bough which shoots over the boundary wall.

What it cannot do is cross that boundary—not a geographical boundary for once—beyond which a democratic state has no business.

They are crossing the boundary between the first childhood and the second.

Word Value for boundary
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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