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boundary terms

boundary terms is the plural of boundary term.

Meaning of boundary term

Noun

boundary term (plural boundary terms)

  1. A word or phrase that is used for othering; a term that serves to identify someone or something as other than the speaker.
    • 'Sustainability' is a boundary term, signifying complex interactions between science, politics, policy making and development (Scoones, 2010: 153-4).2013, Frances Fahy, Henrike Rau, Methods of Sustainability Research in the Social Sciences, →ISBN, page 91
  2. A term that must be added to an equation to represent a boundary condition.
    • If M is truncated to have toral boundary, there will be a boundary term after the integration by parts step.1996, Kojima Sadayoshi, Saito Kyoji, Matsumoto Y, Topology And Teichmuller Spaces, →ISBN

Questions about boundary terms

What is boundary terms the plural of?
Boundary terms is the plural of boundary term.

Words near boundary terms in the dictionary

  1. boundary rider
  2. boundary riders
  3. boundary stone
  4. boundary stones
  5. boundary term
  6. boundary terms
  7. boundary umpire
  8. boundary umpires
  9. Boundary Waters
  10. boundary-rider
  11. boundary-riders

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